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标题：Numerical modelling of structural controls on fluid flow and mineralization
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作者：Yanhua Zhang ; J. Robinson ; P.M. Schaubs 等
期刊名称：Geoscience Frontiers
印刷版ISSN：1674-9871
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：449-461
DOI：10.1016/j.gsf.2011.05.011
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThis paper presents the results of a set of numerical models focussing on structural controls on hydrothermal mineralization. We first give an overview of natural phenomena of structurally-controlled ore formation and the background theory and mechanisms for such controls. We then provide the results of a group of simple 2D numerical models validated through comparison with Cu-vein structure observed near the Shilu Copper deposit (Yangchun, Guangdong Province, China) and finally a case study of 3D numerical modelling applied to the Hodgkinson Province in North Queensland (Australia). Two modelling approaches, discrete deformation modelling and continuum coupled deformation and fluid flow modelling, are involved. The 2D model-derived patterns are remarkably consistent with the Cu-vein structure from the Shilu Copper deposit, and show that both modelling approaches can realistically simulate the mechanical behaviours of shear and dilatant fractures. The continuum coupled deformation and fluid flow model indicates that pattern of the Cu-veins near the Shilu deposit is the result of shear strain localization, development of dilation and fluid focussing into the dilatant fracture segments. The 3D case-study models (with deformation and fluid flow coupling) on the Hodgkinson Province generated a number of potential gold mineralization targets.
关键词：KeywordsenStructural controlDilationFluid flowMineralizationNumerical modellingShilu Cu-depositHodgkinson Province