Smaller gold deposits in the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil |
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| Authors: | DS Vial GC Abreu G Schubert LC Ribeiro-Rodrigues |
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| Institution: | aCVRD—Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, BR 381, km 450, Santa Luzia, MG, Brazil;bInstituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo/Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Rua Major Solbiat, 226, Torrinha, SP, Brazil;cFundação Educacional de Caratinga, Fazenda Experimental, BR-116, Km 526, Bairro das Graças, Caratinga, MG, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | The Quadrilátero Ferrífero is a classic gold province on a global scale, with hundreds of individual gold occurrences in the Archean greenstone belt comprising the Rio das Velhas Supergroup. There are numerous small gold deposits, including Faria, Esperança III, Bicalho, Bela Fama, Juca Vieira, Brumal, Boa Vista, Fernandes, Moita, Roça Grande, Bico de Pedra and Pari, as well as the world-class deposits of Morro Velho and Cuiabá. All these deposits, whether large or small, are structurally controlled and related to either shear zones or folds. Extensive down-plunge continuity is a consistent feature of the deposits. In the Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, six main styles of gold mineralization are recognized. These are deposits hosted within: (1), Lapa seca (e.g., Morro Velho, Bicalho, Bela Fama), (2), Banded iron formations (e.g., Cuiabá, São Bento, Raposos, Faria, Brumal, Roça Grande), (3), Quartz veins (e.g., Juca Vieira, Fernandes), (4), Disseminated sulfides with quartz veinlets (e.g., Moita), (5), Amphibolites (e.g., Pari), and (6), Disseminated to massive base-metal sulfides (e.g., Bico de Pedra). The first four types of deposits are epigentic (orogenic) gold deposits, similar to those found in greenstone belts worldwide. The last two are unusual types of gold deposit, peculiar to the Quadrilátero Ferrífero. Bico de Pedra is a polymetallic Au–Ag–Zn–Pb–Cu deposit related to an aplite intrusion, whereas Pari is a stratiform Au-bearing-banded iron formation metamorphosed to epidote–amphibolite metamorphic facies. |
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| Keywords: | Gold Quadrilá tero Ferrí fero Rio das Velhas greenstone belt Banded iron formation Lapa seca |
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