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Visualization of the incremental magma growth related to porphyry copper deposits obtained with numerical modeling

Korges, Maximilian | Weis, Philipp | Andersen, Christine

GFZ Data Services

(2023)

Descriptions

Porphyry copper deposits provide most of the world’s, half its molybdenum reserves and are resources for Zn, Pb, Au, and Ag. The porphyry mineralization is inferred to form on time scales between 50 and 100kyrs whereby the mineralization forming magma chamber is generally built up by multiple intrusive events. The overall source magmatic system can be active for several millions of years. We used the Complex System Modeling Platform (CSMP++) to simultaneously model sill injection, heat transfer, the release of metal-bearing magmatic fluids, the multi-phase flow of saline hydrothermal fluids, and dynamic permeability variations with a continuum porous medium approach. Our modeling studies the volumetric injection rate and its impact on the growth of the magma chamber and the Cu-ore shell but also investigates the influence of hydrothermal convection and fluid release. The setup of each modeling run is changed slightly, either by changing the influx rate, changing the geometry of the magma chamber, or changing the location of fluid release. CSMP was modified to produce vtk and vtu files every 100 years which were read into the Paraview 4.3.1 software to perform the post-processing (including the calculation of the copper enrichment factor and the pore fluid factor). Paraview was then used to produce the displayed videos.
The over-riding goal of the DFG priority programm 2238 - DOME (https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/spp2238/) is to find solutions to fundamental questions of element transport and mineralization in heterogeneous chemical systems that are complex, dynamic and highly transient. The topic of ore genesis has been studied for a long time from a combined field/laboratory perspective and also experimentally in simplified systems, but rarely have these techniques been integrated in a coordinated way with the third perspective from numerical process modeling. The originality and innovation potential of this priority program lies in the coordination of empirical field-related studies that define the geological/mineralogical framework of natural ore systems with experimental work and numerical models that provide a quantitative understanding of the processes involved.

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
pluton
magma chamber
porphyry copper deposits
magmatic sill
numerical modeling
ore deposit
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS > IGNEOUS ROCKS > IGNEOUS ROCK VERTICAL/GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS > METALS > METALS VERTICAL/GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
pluton
magmatic sill
ore mine

MSL enriched keywords
Modeled structure
modelled magmatic structure
pluton
magmatic sill
ore mine
igneous rock - intrusive
magma
minerals
chemical elements
copper
measured property
copper
Measured property
permeability
gold (Au)
lead (Pb)
molybdenum
zinc

MSL enriched sub domains i

analogue modelling of geologic processes
geochemistry
rock and melt physics

Source

https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/dome/showshort.php?id=838770e4-958f-11ed-95b8-f851ad6d1e4b

Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.d.2023.001


Creators

Korges, Maximilian

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1848-4408

Weis, Philipp

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-0735

Andersen, Christine

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-2216


Contributors

Korges, Maximilian

ContactPerson

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1848-4408

Korges, Maximilian

DataManager

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1848-4408

Korges, Maximilian

Producer

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1848-4408

Weis, Philipp

ProjectLeader

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-0735

Andersen, Christine

ProjectMember

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-2216

Korges, Maximilian

ContactPerson

University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany


References

10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116584


Citation

Korges, M., Weis, P., & Andersen, C. (2023). Visualization of the incremental magma growth related to porphyry copper deposits obtained with numerical modeling [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.D.2023.001


Dates

Created:

2019

Issued:

2023


Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International