Algamarca gold deposit in Peru: News on its formation

Scientific result

26 September 2024

With their partners from South American institutions, researchers from the Géosciences Environnement Toulouse laboratory (GET-OMP – CNES/CNRS/IRD/UT3) analyzed the fluids of the earth’s crust at the origin of the gold deposits. Their conceptual model of the formation of the Algamarca gold-silver-copper deposit (northern Peru) is published in Ore Geology Reviews.

For geologists, gold is above all a mystery to be elucidated… How is it formed? What other minerals are involved?
Read more on the IRD website.
GET contacts: Patrice Baby and Gleb Pokrovski.

Sources :

Origin and evolution of gold-bearing fluids in a carbon-rich sedimentary basin : A case study of the Algamarca epithermal gold-silver-copper deposit, northern Peru, Galdos R., Vallance J., Baby P., Salvi S., Schirra M., Velasquez G., Viveen W., Soto R., Pokrovski G. S., Ore Geology Reviews, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2023.105857

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