listofquestionstobeaddressedbytheigcp-502global.docVIP

List of questions to be addressed by the IGCP-502 Global VMS teams The aim of this questionnaire is to create a comprehensive database on VMS districts that will enable comparisons among VMS districts, based on the same criteria.. We aim that the database will contain much more geological and interpretative information than a simple database of tonnage, grade and host rocks. Comparisons among VMS districts are one of the main goals of IGCP-502 and will help us ascertain which are the key geological events, common to all major VMS districts, that result in high-value VMS deposits. Specifically we seek answers to the fundamental question: what controls the distribution and timing of major VMS deposits and VMS districts? The database should also be useful for other research and mineral exploration applications. The leaders of IGCP-502 invite each research team to fill in the following questionnaire for the VMS district that the team is working in. Fill in a new questionnaire for each VMS district if you want to include more than one district from the same country. Please contact the regional co-ordinator for IGCP-502 in your country (see list below) if you wish to participate in this questionnaire. Answers to the questions should provide the current state of knowledge in your district; provide evidence and references where possible. It is anticipated that not all questions can be answered for all VMS districts; in some cases the necessary work may not have been carried out yet. Consequently, this questionnaire will also show what work has been done and what work needs to be done in the future in each VMS district. Please look at the GEODE 2000 Global VMS Questionnaire as an example of how this new questionnaire should be completed. The results for the Iberian Pyrite Belt (available as a PDF file from this web site) are particularly good to use as a template for filling in the questionnaire. VMS Districts in the IGCP-502 project and Regional Co-ordinators VM