Contents Preface • Fractures, fluid flow and mineralization: an introduction • Fracture populations: Fractal analysis and percolation properties of veins • Geometry and population systematics of a quartz vein set, Holy Island Anglesey, North Wales • Influence of layering on vein systematics in line samples • Scaling systematics of vein size: an example from the Guanajuato mining district (Central Mexico) • Fluid flow and fracture systems • Critical stress localization of flow associated with deformation of well-fractured rock masses, with implications for mineral deposits • Discrete fracture network modelling applied to groundwater resource exploitation in southwest Ireland • Prediction of static and dynamic fluid pathways within and around dilational jogs • Structural controls on mineralization • Deformational controls on the dynamics of fluid flow in mesothermal gold systems • Are gold deposits in the crust fractals? A study of gold mines in the Zimbabwean craton • Thrust fracture network and hydrothermal gold mineralization: Witwatersrand basin, South Africa • Adularia-sericite gold deposits of Marmato (Caldas, Colombia): field and petrographical data • Fluidized hydrothermal breccia in dilatant faults during thrusting: the Colombian emerald deposits • Nickel Ore Troughs in Archaean volcanic rocks, Kambalda, Western Australia: indicators of early extension • Structural controls on hydrocarbon and mineral deposits within the Kutai Basin, East Kalimantan • Irish Zn/Pb deposits: structure and fluid flow • Extensional faults that localize Irish syndiagenetic Zn- Pb deposits and their reactivation during Variscan compression • Fracture-controlled fluid flow in the Lower Palaeozoic basement rocks of Ireland: implications for the genesis of Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits • Carboniferous basin evolution of central Ireland - Structural controls and mineralization • Age of mineralization of carbonate-hosted, base metal deposits in the Rathdowney Trend, Ireland • Gravity lineaments and Carboniferous-hosted base metal deposits of the Irish Midlands • Index