The Jbel Saghro Au(–Ag, Cu) and Ag–Hg Metallogenetic Province: Product of a Long-Lived Ediacaran Tectono-Magmatic Evolution in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas

Johann Tuduri 1 Alain Chauvet 2 Luc Barbanson 3, 4 Jean-Louis Bourdier 3 Mohamed Labriki 5 Aomar Ennaciri 6 Lakhlifi Badra 7 Michel Dubois Christelle Ennaciri-Leloix 5 Stanislas Sizaret 3, 4 Lhou Maacha 5
1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 Géosciences Montpellier
3 ISTO - Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327
4 Métallogénie - UMR7327
ISTO - Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans - UMR7327
5 Groupe Managem
6 SMI - Société métallurgique d'Imiter
7 UMI - Université de Moulay Ismail
Abstract : The Jbel Saghro is interpreted as part of a long-lived silicic large igneous province. The area comprises two lithostructural complexes. The Lower Complex consists of folded metagreywackes and N070–090°E dextral shear zones, which roughly results from a NW–SE to NNW–SSE shortening direction related to a D1 transpressive tectonic stage. D1 is also combined with syntectonic plutons emplaced between ca. 615 and 575 Ma. The Upper Complex is defined by ash-flow caldera emplacements, thick and widespread ignimbrites, lavas and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks with related intrusives that were emplaced in three main magmatic flare ups at ca. 575, 565 and 555 Ma. It lies unconformably on the Lower Complex units and was affected by a D2 trantensive tectonic stage. Between 550 and 540 Ma, the magmatic activity became slightly alkaline and of lower extent. Ore deposits show specific features, but remain controlled by the same structural setting: a NNW–SSE shortening direction related to both D1 and D2 stages. Porphyry Au(–Cu–Mo) and intrusion-related gold deposits were emplaced in an earlier stage between 580 and 565 Ma. Intermediate sulfidation epithermal deposits may have been emplaced during lull periods after the second and (or) the third flare-ups (560–550 Ma). Low sulfidation epithermal deposits were emplaced late during the felsic alkaline magmatic stage (550–520 Ma). The D2 stage, therefore, provided extensional structures that enabled fluid circulations and magmatic-hydrothermal ore forming processes.
Keywords : ash-flow caldera ignimbrite flare-ups silicic large igneous province structural control epithermal porphyry IRGD Anti-Atlas
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Johann Tuduri, Alain Chauvet, Luc Barbanson, Jean-Louis Bourdier, Mohamed Labriki, et al.. The Jbel Saghro Au(–Ag, Cu) and Ag–Hg Metallogenetic Province: Product of a Long-Lived Ediacaran Tectono-Magmatic Evolution in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas. Minerals, MDPI, 2018, 8 (12), pp.592. ⟨10.3390/min8120592⟩. ⟨hal-02005355⟩

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