B Type Veins in Porphyry Copper Systems

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Just got back home from my physical geology class and had a lecture about geologic resources so now I see this in my recommended... Great timing!

[@GeologyUpSkill]

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[@GeologyUpSkill]

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[@martinovando]

Thanks for the video sir! and also Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge! greetings from Chile!

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks. Lots of B veins in Chile!

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[@bhhdh658]

This is some good content about B Type veins and their role in magmatic-hydrothermal transition mineralization environments. Keep up the good work!

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks. Hope it helps you find the next porphyry copper deposit!

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Great. Mexico is particularly well endowed with gold, copper and silver.

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[@GeologyUpSkill]

Haha, Korean Exploration always starts in a carpark, but it goes bush very quickly up the hill.

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Haha, Korean Exploration always starts in a carpark, but it goes bush very quickly up the hill.

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[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks John. Really, I'm just an ordinary geologist who spent too many years in the field and learned how to use a camera...

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[@lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792]

Are b veins likely to be present in an epithermal lithocap? Tomorrow is trying to high grade sample a hill of residual quartz, replacement and breccia... barren lithocap with patchy Fe and argilic zones

[@GeologyUpSkill]

It can happen when a high sulphidation epithermal system above a porphyry collapses downward onto the top of a b vein zone.

[@lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792]

@@GeologyUpSkill thanks ... seems to be low sulfidation and the top 20m is now spread on pine forest roads... but we might get lucky and find a gold mine in a quartz quarry. 👍

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You have a really efficient look for prospects and good vue for minerals papa

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks Nikolas. If you want to be a good exploration geologist, it is good to think like a prospector and use what you learned at university as tools of the trade.

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Actually there is an interesting tour of building stone in Adelaide. I made a start on videos for that, but it's a long term project!

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A real explorer! Great Job!

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Thanks Hamdollah. Discoveries like this one make exploration a very rewarding job.

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Could you please explain​ about Hydrothermal and epithermal system​?​

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Epithermal is a low temperature type of hydrothermal system.

[@ahmedaziz6062]

Thanks for sharing such a good information.

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks. B-Veins are very useful things :)

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Gracias por compartir. Saludos desde Venezuela

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks for commenting. Greetings from Australia!

[@MerchantMarineGuy]

Say I found an area with extensive b-type veins. Where should I be looking for the ore body?

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Right under your feet!

[@anusonniyompan7131]

Thank you for such a good content.

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks Anuson. Hope it helps you to find the next porphyry copper deposit.

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thanks again Nick very interesting information just would like to no if you have information for prospecting for gold at all

[@GeologyUpSkill]

You might find this one interesting. It's all about how to identify old alluvial workings. They are a great prospecting guide. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rV7YkJuXjNCJos0

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[@ibrahimreki5113]

Please make a video on D-type veins

[@GeologyUpSkill]

D type veins are a much more difficult issue because the textures and mineralogy are similar in a wide variety of deposit styles. If you already know you are in a porphyry system, life is a bit easier, but still plenty of room for argument!

[@petersocha5551]

I found a nice band of quartz with a thin black stripe running parallel to it in a finely grained gray metamorphosed hornfel earlier last month and wondered what in the world it could be. This has got to be it! Thank you!

[@GeologyUpSkill]

That sounds exciting. If the rocks are hornfelsed, the intrusive can't be far away!

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Hey Nick, great explanation about B veins! Do a colab with Mr Peter Pollard!

[@GeologyUpSkill]

It's in the editing room now!

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[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks very much. The KZbin algorithm seemed to think geology wasn't much of interest to anyone, but this week, it seems to have decided that EVERYONE needs to know about B-Veins!

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Thanks for sharing

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks Christian. Hope you find a few B veins too!

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[@GeologyUpSkill]

They are a thing of beauty!

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Thanks!

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Thanks Kolo. Glad you enjoyed it.

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Thanks Ahmed.

[@hkkhgffh3613]

Is there a Sodomitic zone, too? I.e. with an enhanced sodium content?

[@GeologyUpSkill]

In this case yes. Actually many porphyry style hydrothermal systems develop a core of sodic rather than potassic alteration (like this one) but they all get lumped into potassic because it is nearly impossible to distinguish alteration k-feldspar from alteration albite reliably in the field.

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I presume you are in the Gawler Peninsula?

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Another Hot Tip" Video!

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Those veins are just so useful!

[@johnnynephrite6147]

OK I figured out how to translate Auzzy to English. "Vine" is actually vein. And "nynain" is the number 19.

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Haha When you upload to KZbin there are several varieties of Engrish you can assign to the voice but Auzzy isn't one of them!

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[@MrCinnabar]

B veins are common in porphyry environments but not unique to mineralized ones. The exploration world needs to spend some time looking at what the geological norm is !

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Yes. B veins only tell you that there is an intrusive issuing fluid. If that fluid is just bath water (the most common situation) you get nothing but quartz and a bunch of altered rock. Mineralization is a whole nuther story!

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[@GeologyUpSkill]

@@MrCinnabar That's great. I aim to make videos that will prepare students for field work.

[@Roger08q]

Any chance its petrified biology

[@GeologyUpSkill]

No. They are most commonly in igneous and volcanic rocks. Much too hot for plants!

[@AgataFeelin]

The observations are great, but so called "B veins" are a made up term that essentially describes a relative timing or paragenesis/mineralogy, so something to be AVOIDED! A good description and measurement of the vein orientation, mineralogy, relative timing and mode of opening (extensional, extensional-shear, shear, unknown) is always preferable, rather than use outdated (1975) terminology. But again, some great observation and description skills here! :)

[@GeologyUpSkill]

Thanks Agatha. I did note the origins of the name in the video and, like most pigeonholes in geology, it has become enlarged and distorted over time, but for me, it's just a convenient name for the collection of characteristics that I described in the video. I have found that collection to be a very useful exploration guide when I'm looking for porphyry type systems. There are similar arguments to be made about the "porphyry" system label, but again, it's just a convenient name that works.

[@CarlosGonzalez-ll6xx]

are b veins related to metamorphism?

[@GeologyUpSkill]

No. They represent hydrothermal fluid coming out of a crystallising magma.