Multiple mineralization and fluid phases in the Central African Copperbelt: implications for the age dating and the ore-forming processes KU Leuven
Various models have been proposed for the ore-forming processes of sediment-hosted Cu-Co deposits in the Central African Copperbelt, ranging from a magmatic to syn-sedimentary, diagenetic and orogenic origin or a multiphase origin. The isotopic systems Re-Os and U-Pb have been applied with success to date the mineralizing processes in the Copperbelt. However, a problem with this approach is the wide and sometimes geologically unrealistic ages ...