Epithermal Gold Deposits: STYLES, CHARACTERISTICS AND EXPLORATION

[Editor’s note: This article stems partly from the lively discussion held during the Forum “Mineral Deposit Models, Their Use and Misuse,” held at the Denver SEG meeting in 1993. See SEG Newsletter No. 14, pages 12-13 for that discussion. In the spirit of encouraging the development of appropriate models of prospects during exploration, the authors provide general patterns and ranges of characteristics for epithermal deposits in which gold is the main economic metal. —HH]