Ore deposits are distributed unevenly on Earth and tend to cluster in specific large-scale zones for which de Launay (1913) introduced the term "metallogenic province". The observational background for this situation has been known since the earliest days of mining. Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23-79) states with reference to silver-bearing veins: "...ubicumque una inventa vena est, non procul invenitur alia". (Where a vein is found, there will be another one not far away). 

1    Corresponding Main Metallogenic Epochs to Key Geological Events in the North China Craton: An Example for Secular Changes in the Evolving Earth    
Mingguo Zhai and Xiyan Zhu
Part I Archean Crustal Growth and Metallogeny
2    Archean Continental Crust in the Southern North China Craton 

Chunrong Diwu, Chengli Zhang, and Yong Sun
3    Structural Architecture and Spatial-Temporal Distribution of the Archean Domains in the Eastern North China Craton    
Peng Peng

The formation of ore deposits and their broader-scale mineral systems requires the conjunction of several essential parameters including their geodynamic setting in the contemporaneous tectonic regime and their subsequent preservation in the ensuing tectonic regimes affecting their formational site. Therefore it is not surprising that there is a close connection between global tectonic regimes, among other factors such as source of ore components and structural pathways to formational sites, and global metallogeny.

Позднепермское-раннетриасовое завершение аккреции южных Алтаид: значение для геодинамической эволюции, фанерозойского роста континента и металлогении Центральной Азии

The Altaids is one of the largest accretionary orogenic collages in the world with the highest rate of Phanerozoic continental growth and significant metallogenic importance. It is widely accepted that subduction-related orogenesis of the Altaids started in the late Precambrian and gradually migrated southward (present coordinates). However, it is uncertain when and how the building of the Altaids was finally completed.

The Alpine-Balkan-Carpathian-Dinaride (ABCD) belt is one of the world’s oldest mining areas and played a major role in the history of European civilizations, from well before the peak of the Greek and Roman civilizations up untilthe present day. Today, it is Europe’s premier Cu-Au (-Pb-Zn-Ag) province, especially for gold-rich deposits associated with calc-alkaline magmatism, which have become a focus of renewed exploration interest after the political change in the eastern part of CentralEurope. The Alpine–Balkan–Carpathian–Dinaride metallogenic and geodynamic province is part of the AlpineHimalayan orogenic system which extends from western Europe through Iran and the Himalayas to China and Malaysia.

The Asian continent formed during the past 800 m.y. during late Neoproterozoic through Jurassic closure of the Tethyan ocean basins, followed by late Mesozoic circum-Pacific and Cenozoic Himalayan orogenies. The oldest gold deposits in Asia reflect accretionary events along the margins of the Siberia, Kazakhstan, North China, Tarim–Karakum, South China, and Indochina Precambrian blocks while they were isolated within the Paleotethys and surrounding Panthalassa Oceans. Orogenic gold deposits are associated with large-scale, terrane-bounding fault systems and broad areas of deformation that existed along many of the active margins of the Precambrian blocks. Deposits typically formed during regional transpressional to transtensional events immediately after to as much as 100 m.y. subsequent to the onset of accretion or collision. Major orogenic gold provinces associated with this growth of the Asian continental mass include:

Установление связи между историей развития региональных геологических структур, геодинамической спецификой отдельных этапов их эволюции, с одной стороны, и составом, пространственным размещением, параметрами рудных объектов – с другой, относится к числу актуальных фундаментальных проблем современной металлогении. Разработка ее главных аспектов раскрывает механизмы перераспределения вещества литосферы и закономерности возникновения рудных концентраций вследствие изменения геодинамических обстановок формирования тех или иных конкретных геолого-тектонических комплексов. Разработка данной проблемы представляется наиболее продуктивной на примере структур, в составе которых присутствуют кристаллические комплексы – фрагменты дорифейского консолидированного фундамента.

Металлогения (минерагения) определяется как наука о закономерностях образова-ния и размещения месторождений полезных ископаемых в пространстве и времени. Эти закономерности определяют металлогеническое развитие земной коры при ее образова-нии и различных преобразованиях, включая деструкцию. В прикладном плане такие за-кономерности служат базой для прогнозных построений − обоснования выделения пер-спективных (потенциально рудоносных и рудоносных) площадей и постановки соответ-ствующих геологоразведочных работ.