Province-scale commonalities of some world-class gold deposits Implications for mineral exploration》.pdf

Geoscience Frontiers 6 (2015) 389e399 HOSTED BY Contents lists available at ScienceDirect China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Geoscience Frontiers journal homepage: /locate/gsf Focus paper Province-scale commonalities of some world-class gold deposits: Implications for mineral exploration David I. Groves a, b, M. Santosh b, c, d, * a Centre for Exploration Targeting, UWA, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia b State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China c Centre for Tectonics Resources and Exploration, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia d Division of Interdisciplinary Science, Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Kochi 780-8520, Japan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Discovery rates for all metals, including gold, are declining, the cost per significant discovery is increasing Received 4 December 2014 sharply, and the economic situation of the industry is one of low base rate. The current hierarchical Received in revised form structure of the exploration and mining industry makes this situation difficult to redress. Economic 29 December 2014 geologists can do little to influence the required changes to the overall structure and philosophy of an Accepted 30 December 2014 industry driven by business rather than geological principles. However, it shoul