Mineral deposits and Earth evolution / Месторождения полезных ископаемых и эволюция Земли

Mineral deposits are the source of all the metals, industrial and bulk minerals that feed the global economy. In addition to being key primary sources of wealth generation, mineral deposits are also valuable windows through which to view the evolution and interrelationships of the Earth system. Unlike hydrocarbon deposits that are largely restricted to more recent phases of geological time, mineral deposits have formed throughout the last 3.8 billion years of the Earth's history. As such they preserve key evidence for early magmatic and tectonic processes, the state of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, and the evolution of life. Furthermore, the very activities of exploration, evaluation and mining of mineral deposits, generate more comprehensive 3D geological information than is generally obtainable in unmineralized rocks, and increasing amounts of this formerly proprietary data are being released into the public domain. <...>

Grieve, R. A. F. Economic natural resource deposits at terrestrial impact structures

Hayward, C. L., Reimold, W. U., Gibson, R. L. & Robb, L. J. Gold mineralization within the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: evidence for a modified placer origin, and the role of the Vredefort impact event

de Wit, M. & Thiart, C. Metallogenic fingerprints of Archaean cratons

Groves, D. I., Vielreicher, R. M., Goldfarb, R. J. & Condie, К. C. Controls on the heterogeneous distribution of mineral deposits through time

Harcouet, V., Guillou-Frottier, L., Bonneville, A. & Feybesse, J. L.

Pre-mineralization thermal evolution of the Palaeoproterozoic gold-rich Ashanti belt, Ghana

Leahy, K., Barnicoat, A. C., Foster, R. P., Lawrence, S. R. & Napier, R. W.

Geodynamic processes that control the global distribution of giant gold deposits

Lowry, D., Boyce, A. J., Fallick, A. E., Stephens, W. E. & Grassineau, N. V. Terrane and basement discrimination in northern Britain using sulphur isotopes and mineralogy of ore deposits

Herrington, R. J., Puchkov, V. N. & Yakubchuk, A. S. A reassessment of the tectonic zonation of the Uralides: implications for metallogeny

Farquhar, J. & Wing, B. A. The terrestrial record of stable sulphur isotopes: a review of the implications for evolution of Earth’s sulphur cycle

Raiswell, R. & Anderson, T. F. Reactive iron enrichment in sediments deposited beneath euxinic bottom waters: constraints on supply by shelf recycling

Grassineau, N. V., Appel, P. W. U., Fowler, С. M. R. & Nisbet, E. G. Distinguishing biological from hydrothermal signatures via sulphur and carbon isotopes in Archaean mineralizations at 3.8 and 2.7 Ga

Bluck, В. J., Ward, J. D. & de Wit, M. C. J. Diamond mega-placers: southern Africa and the Kaapvaal craton in a global context

Heinrich, C. A., Halter, W., Landtwing, M. R. & Pettke, T. The formation of economic porphyry copper (-gold) deposits: constraints from microanalysis of fluid and melt inclusions