Formation and importance of copper-gold-iron deposits in back-arc environments

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• Professor Adam Simon, University of Michigan
• Monday 10 November 2025, 12:00-13:00
• Department of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

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Copper and iron are arguably the most essential minerals for global development because they are essential for energy systems, data centers, defense applications, consumer goods, and manufacture and deployment of low-carbon electricity generation, transmission and storage, and vehicle electrification. Back-arc environments host iron oxide-copper-gold and iron oxide-apatite deposits that are important sources of their namesake metals, as well as rare earth elements, uranium, phosphorus, silver, cobalt, bismuth and niobium that are economically important byproducts in some deposits. I will discuss how these deposits form and exploration strategies to discover new deposits.

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