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Quadrilatero Ferrifero District Gold - Geological Setting
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Main commodities: Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2022.     Record last updated: 03/01/2023
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Anonymous  2001 - Eldorado Gold Corp: in    extract from Eldorado Gold Corp. web site http://www.eldoradogold.com    5p
Anonymous  2001 - Morro Velho: in   extract from AngloGold web site http://www.anglogold.com/ informationforinvestors/annualreport99/20f/i1-4susa.htm    2p
Araujo, J.C.S., Ferreira R.C.R., Freitas F.M. and Magalhaes, J.R.,  2020 - The Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt revisited: new insights into the stratigraphy: in    Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil,   v.3, No.3, pp. 113-149. doi.org/10.29396/jgsb.2020.v3.n3.1.
Baltazar O F and Zucchetti M,  2007 - Lithofacies associations and structural evolution of the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Brazil: A review of the setting of gold deposits: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v32 pp 471-499
Baltazar, O.F. and Lobato, L.M.,  2020 - Structural Evolution of the Rio das Velhas Greenstone Belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Brazil: Influence of Proterozoic Orogenies on its Western Archean Gold Deposits: in    Minerals (MDPI)   v.10, 38p. doi:10.3390/min10110983.
Chauvet A, Piantone P, Barbanson L, Nehlig P, Pedroletti I  2001 - Gold deposit formation during collapse tectonics: structural, mineralogical, geochronological and fluid inclusion constraints in the Ouro Preto Gold mines, Quadrilatero, Brazil: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 25-48
de Alvarenga, C.J.S., Cathelineau, M. and Dubessy, J.,  1991 - Au-ore deposition-rock deformation-ore fluid chemistry relationships in quartz veins from Cuiba, Brazil: in Ladeira, E.A. (Ed.),  Brazil Gold 91 Balkema, Rotterdam,    pp 335-338
Dias, T.G., Figueiredo e Silva, R.C., Lobato, L.M., Caxito, F.A., Hagermann, S., Santos, J.O.S. and Barrote, V.,  2022 - Ediacaran - Cambrian fluid flow in Archean orogenic gold deposits: Evidence from U-Pb SHRIMP hydrothermal monazite ages of the metaturbidite-hosted Corrego do Sitio and Pilar deposits, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Brazil: in    J. of South American Earth Sciences   v.116, doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103844.
Kresse, C., Lobato, L.M., Hagemann, S.G. and Figueiredo e Silva, R.C.,  2018 - Sulfur isotope and metal variations in sulfides in the BIF-hosted orogenic Cuiaba gold deposit, Brazil: Implications for the hydrothermal fluid evolution: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.98, pp. 1-27.
Ladeira E A   1991 - Genesis of gold in Quadrilatero Ferrifero: A remarkable case of permanency, recycling and inheritance - A tribute to Djalma Guimaraes, Pierre Routhier and Hans Ramberg: in Ladeira E A (Ed.),  Brazil Gold 91 Balkema, Rotterdam    pp 11-30
Lobato L M, Ribeiro-Rodrigues L C, Vieira F W R  2001 - Brazils premier gold province. Part II: geology and genesis of gold deposits in the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero: in    Mineralium Deposita   v36 pp 249-277
Lobato L M, Ribeiro-Rodrigues L C, Zucchetti M, Noce C M, Baltazar O F, da Silva L C, Pinto C P  2001 - Brazils premier gold province. Part I: The tectonic, magmatic and structural setting of the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero: in    Mineralium Deposita   v36 pp 228-248
Lobato L M, Santos J O S, McNaughton N J, Fletcher I R and Noce C M,  2007 - U-Pb SHRIMP monazite ages of the giant Morro Velho and Cuiaba gold deposits, Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v32 pp 674-680
Martins Pereira, S.L., Lobato, L.M., Ferreira, J.E. and Jardim, E.C.,  2007 - Nature and origin of the BIF-hosted Sao Bento gold deposit, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Brazil, with special emphasis on structural controls: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.32, pp. 571-595.
Maurer, V.C., de Melo, G.H.C., Lana, C.deC., Marinho, M.deS., Batista, S.P.V., da Silveira, L.M., Queiroga, G., Castro, M.P. and Silva, M.,  2021 - Trace elements in pyrite and pyrrhotite in the Pitangui Orogenic Au deposit, Pitangui greenstone belt, Sao Francisco Craton: Implications for the ore-forming fluids and metal sources: in    J. of South American Earth Sciences   v.111, 22p. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103459.
Noce C M, Tassinari C and Lobato L M,  2007 - Geochronological framework of the Quadrilatero Ferrifero, with emphasis on the age of gold mineralization hosted in Archean greenstone belts: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v32 pp 500-510
Ribeiro-Rodrigues L C, de Oliveira C G and Friedrich G,  2007 - The Archean BIF-hosted Cuiaba Gold deposit, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v32 pp 543-570
Scarpelli W  1991 - Aspects of gold mineralization in the Iron Quadrangle, Brazil: in Ladeira E A (Ed.),  Brazil Gold 91 Balkema, Rotterdam    pp 151-157
Soares, M.B., Selby, D., Robb, L. and Correa Neto, A.V.,  2021 - Sulfide Recrystallization and Gold Remobilization During the 2.0 Ga Stage of the Minas Orogeny: Implications for Gold Mineralization in the Quadrilatero Ferrifero Area, Brazi: in    Econ. Geol.   v.116, pp. 1455-1466.
Vial D S, Abreu G C, Schubert G and Ribeiro-Rodrigues L C,  2007 - Smaller gold deposits in the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Brazil: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v32 pp 651-673
Vial D S, Duarte B P, Fuzikawa K and Vieira M B H,  2007 - An epigenetic origin for the Passagem de Mariana gold deposit, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v32 pp 596-613
Vial, D.S., DeWitt, E., Lobato, L.M. and Thorman, C.H.,  2007 - The geology of the Morro Velho gold deposit in the Archean Rio das Velhas greenstone belt, Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Brazil: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.32, pp. 511-542.
Vieira F W R  1991 - Textures and processes of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization in the Nova Lima Group, Minas Gerais, Brazil: in Ladeira E A (Ed.),  Brazil Gold 91 Balkema, Rotterdam    pp 319-325
Viera F W R, Corbani M, Fonesca J T F, Pereira A, de Oliveira G A I, Clemente P L C  1986 - Excursion to the Cuiba gold mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil: in Thorman C H, Ladeira E A, Schnabel D C (Ed.s),  Gold Deposits Related to Greenstone Belts in Brazil - Deposit Modelling Workshop, Part A    Excursions pp A79-A86
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