Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

With descriptions of 28 currently or soon-to-be producing gold mines, the 38 papers in this publication focus primarily on basic geology (structural controls, lithogeochemistry, and mineralogy) of the world's major gold deposits and provinces-an ideal contribution to the 100th anniversary celebrations of SEG by 63 specialists in the field.

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Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 1: Gold Deposit Types: An Overview

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 2: Metallogeny of the Neoarchean Malartic Gold Camp, Québec, Canada

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 3: Gold Deposits of the World-Class Timmins-Porcupine Camp, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 4: Hemlo Gold System, Superior Province, Canada

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 5: The Low-Grade, Neoproterozoic, Vein-Style, Carbonaceous Phyllite-Hosted Paracatu Gold Deposit, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 6: The Supergiant, High-Grade, Paleoproterozoic Metasedimentary Rock- and Shear Vein-Hosted Obuasi (Ashanti) Gold Deposit, Ghana, West Africa

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 7: Paleoproterozoic Gold Deposits of the Loulo District, Western Mali

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 8: The World-Class Gold Deposits in the Geita Greenstone Belt, Northwestern Tanzania

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 9: Orogenic Gold Deposits of the Kibali District, Neoarchean Moto Belt, Northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 10: Olympiada Gold Deposit, Yenisei Ridge, Russia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 11: The Telfer Gold-Copper Deposit, Paterson Province, Western Australia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 12: Geologic Setting and Gold Mineralization of the Kalgoorlie Gold Camp, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 13: Boddington: An Enigmatic Giant Archean Gold-Copper (Molybdenum-Silver) Deposit in the Southwest Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 14: The Brucejack Au-Ag Deposit, Northwest British Columbia, Canada: Multistage Porphyry to Epithermal Alteration, Mineralization, and Deposit Formation in an Island-Arc Setting

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 15: Goldstrike Gold System, North Carlin Trend, Nevada, USA

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 16: Giant Carlin-Type Gold Deposits of the Cortez District, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 17: Epithermal Gold Deposits Related to Alkaline Igneous Rocks in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, United States

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 18: Geology of Round Mountain, Nevada: A Giant Low-Sulfidation Epithermal Gold Deposit

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 19: The Peñasquito Gold-(Silver-Lead-Zinc) Deposit, Zacatecas, Mexico

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 20: The Pueblo Viejo Au-Ag-Cu-(Zn) Deposit, Dominican Republic

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 21: Geology of the Fruta del Norte Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, Ecuador

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 22: Gold Deposits of the Yanacocha District, Cajamarca, Peru

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 23: Alteration, Mineralization, and Age Relationships at the Kişladağ Porphyry Gold Deposit, Turkey

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 24: Muruntau, Uzbekistan: The World’s Largest Epigenetic Gold Deposit

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 25: The Sukhoi Log Gold Deposit, Russia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 26: Geology of the Hishikari Gold Deposit, Kagoshima, Japan

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 27: Geology of the Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 28: Lihir Alkalic Epithermal Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 29: Grasberg Copper-Gold-(Molybdenum) Deposit: Product of Two Overlapping Porphyry Systems

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 30: Geologic Evolution of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian Alkalic Porphyry Au-Cu Deposits at Cadia, New South Wales, Australia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 31: Geologic Evidence of Syngenetic Gold in the Witwatersrand Goldfields, South Africa

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 32: Gold Deposits of the Archean Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 33: Neoarchean Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 34: The Paleoproterozoic (Rhyacian) Gold Deposits of West Africa

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 35: Gold Deposits of the Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 36: Carlin-Type Gold Deposits in Nevada: Geologic Characteristics, Critical Processes, and Exploration

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 37: Giant Placers of the Upper Kolyma Gold Fields, Yana-Kolyma Province, Russian Northeast

Geology of the World's Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Paper 38: Hydrothermal Gold Deposition in Epithermal, Carlin, and Orogenic Deposits