Events & Courses

It is more than 10-years since the last detailed look at the role that volcanic and magmatic processes play in the role of ore deposits formation. The topic is still current and ready for a wide-ranging reassessment.

This meeting addressed the fundamental controls on metal transport and deposition in magmatic systems and questions such as:

• What role do sulfide melts play in metal transport?
• What are the key components of fertile magmas and how can they be identified?
• What role do volatiles and semi-metals play in transporting and depositing metals?
• How are ore metals concentrated during magmatic differentiation and transferred to the hydrothermal environment?

Topics for Discussion

• Volcanic and ore processes: timescales and catastrophes
• Magmatic hydrothermal plumbing systems
• Sulfides through the crust: melts, minerals and volatiles
• Volatile compositions
• Magmatic and hydrothermal systems from mantle to surface

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Professor Jon Blundy, University of Bristol

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford

Professor John Mavrogenes, Australian National University

Massimo Chiaradia, University of Geneva

Jamie Wilkinson, Imperial College London

Wim Degruyter, Cardiff University

Convenors

Jon Naden ([email protected]), 

Dan Smith 

Frances Cooper

Rich Siddle

Marie Edmonds

Mike Widdowson

Presentations

Porphyry-type ore deposits: orgins, fertility indicators and exploration targeting

Jamie Wilkinson, Natural History Museum

Timescales of porphyry copper deposits: what they do tell us? 

Massimo Chiaradia, University of Geneva

Linking fluid flux, fluid chemistry and degasing timescales of incrementally grown plutons: Implications for mineralization and volcanic degassing

Very Hydrous Magmas, Cryptic Water and Metal Transport Efficiency

Daniel Smith, University of Leicester

Metal Volatility and environmental impacts: lessons from volcanic plume measurements

Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford

Mass wasting events and their impact on the formation and preservation of submarine magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits

Jonathan Naden, British Geological Survey

Gold Mineralisation in the Southern Uplands - Longford Down Complex in Scotland and Ireland: Review and synthesis of the role of late-Caledonian magmatism

Samuel Rice, University of the West of Scotland

The fate of sulfur in Arcs

John Mavrogenes, Australian National University

Sulfide saturation and breakdown during the 2014-2015 Holuhraun eruption, Iceland

Emma Liu, University of Cambridge

Chalcogen Variations in Oceanic Plateau Basalts and the S Budget of their Associated Eruptions

Calllum Reekie, University of Cambridge

The effect of titanite crystallisation on Eu and Ce anomalies in zircon and its implications for the assessment of porphyry Cu deposit fertility

Matthew Loader, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London and Natural History Museum

Applying the plagioclase discriminator to the GEOROC database of Japan

Matthew Hodgkinson, Natural History Museum

Fenite as an exploration indicator for rare earth and niobium mineralisation, and their importance within the magmatic story

Holly Elliott, University of Exeter

Perspectives on the evolution of magma bodies from numerical modelling

Wim Degruyter, Cardiff University

Insights into the Petrogenetic Evolution of Porphyry Systems using Integrated Zircon Tract Element and Melt Inclusion Analyses: A Case Study from the Maronia Magmatic Corridor, NE Greece

Rebecca Perkins, University of Bristol

Elvan (Rhyolite/Quartz-Porphyry) Dykes of SW England: New Data on Their Relation to Sn-W Mineralisation and Interaction with Lamprophyres

Charlie Moon, Moon Geology & University of Exeter