Month: March 2026
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Fingerprinting Archean part 4, doing things
Introduction: other chill things to do with clustered deposits Last time we went through the process of trying to identify clusters of deposits with similar geochemical anomalies. We were kind of successful, in that there appears to some correspondence between some “type deposits” and the clusters. Well, now we’ve got these clusters, so what are…
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Fingerprinting Archean gold deposits using geochemistry, part 3: deposits
Introduction We’ve been talking about fingerprinting for the last two weeks (part 1 here, part 2 here), meaning taking some geochemistry data and using it to infer something about genetics of a deposit. Last time, we looked at what some of the correlations we can expect to find. In other words, the elements that might…