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Porgera
Papua New Guinea
Main commodities: Au Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2001.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Porgera

    Selected References
Corbett G, Leach T, Stewart R, Fulton B  1995 - The Porgera gold deposit: structure, alteration and mineralisation: in Mauk J L, St George J D (Eds.),  PACRIM 95 congress, Exploring the Rim, Auckland, New Zealand, 19-22 November 1995, The AusIMM, Melbourne,    Proceedings volume,  pp 151-156
Cotton R E  1975 - Porgera gold deposits: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 872-874
Fleming A W, Handley K L, Hills A L, Corbett G J  1986 - The Porgera Gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: in    Econ. Geol.   v81 pp 660-680
Gunson M, Hall G, Johnston M  2000 - Foraminiferal coloration index as a guide to hydrothermal gradients around the Porgera intrusive complex, Papua New Guinea: in    Econ. Geol.   v95 pp 271-282
Hall G C  1996 - The Porgera exploration model: in   Porphyry Related Copper and Gold Deposits of the Asia Pacific Region, Conf Proc, Cairns, 12-13 Aug, 1996 AMF, Adelaide    pp 12.1-12.8
Handley G A, Henry D D  1990 - Porgera gold deposit: in Hughes FE (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1717-1724
Hay, J.P., Haydon, M.M. and Robert, F.,  2020 - Geology of the Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea: in Sillitoe, R.H., Goldfarb, R.J., Robert, F. and Simmons, S.F., (Eds.), 2020 Geology of the Worlds Major Gold Deposits and Provinces, Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Society of Economic Geologists, Inc.,   SEG Special Publication 23, Chapter 27, doi.org/10.5382/SP.23.27
Munroe S M,  1995 - The Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: The influence of structure and tectonic setting on hydrothermal fluid flow and mineralisation at a convergent plate margin: in Mauk J L and St George J D, (Eds.),  PACRIM 95 congress, Exploring the Rim, Auckland, New Zealand, 19-22 November 1995, The AusIMM, Melbourne,   Proceedings volume,  pp. 413-416
Orogen Minerals Ltd  1996 - Porgera gold mine (Extracts): in   Extracts from  Orogen Minerals Ltd Prospectus, 1996    pp 51-59 and 141-158
Richards J P  1997 - Controls on scale of Porgera-type porphyry/epithermal gold deposits associated with mafic, alkalic magmatism: in    Trans. IMM, Section B   v106 B1-8
Richards J P, Bray C J, Channer D M DeR, Spooner E T C,  1997 - Fluid chemistry and processes at the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea : in    Mineralium Deposita   v32 pp 119-132
Richards J P, Kerrich R  1993 - The Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea: Magmatic hydrothermal to epithermal evolution of an alkalic type precious metal deposit (Full paper): in    Econ. Geol.   v88 pp 1017-1052
Richards, J.P.,  2009 - Postsubduction porphyry Cu-Au and epithermal Au deposits: Products of remelting of subduction-modified lithosphere: in    Geology   v.37, pp. 247-250.
Ronacher E, Richards J P and Johnston M D  2000 - Evidence for fluid phase separation in high-grade ore zones at the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: in    Mineralium Deposita   v35 pp 683-688
Ronacher E, Richards J P and Johnston M D  1999 - New mineralisation and alteration styles at the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: in   Pacrim 99, International Congress on Earth Science, Exploration and Mining Around the Pacific Rim, Proc. Pacrim 99 Conference, Bali, Indonesia AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 91-94
Ronacher E, Richards J P, Reed M H, Bray C J, Spooner E T C, and Adams P D  2004 - Characteristics and Evolution of the Hydrothermal Fluid in the North Zone High-Grade Area, Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea: in    Econ. Geol.   v99 pp 843-867
Ronacher E, Richards J P, Villeneuve M E and Johnston M D  2002 - Short life-span of the ore-forming system at the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: laser 40Ar/39Ar dates for roscoelite, biotite, and hornblende: in    Mineralium Deposita   v37 pp 75-86
White, N.C., Leake, M.J., McCaughey, S.N. andd Parris, B.W.,  1995 - Epithermal gold deposits of the southwest Pacific: in    J. of Geochemical Exploration   v.54, pp. 87-136.


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