Gold Deposit Classification: List of 10 Types of Gold Deposits

Gold/Auriferous Deposits can be classified into types for which here is a List of 10 Types of Gold Deposits:

  1. Auriferous porphyry dykes, sills, and stocksAuriferous pegmatites; coarse-grained granitic deposits + albitite.
  2. Carbonatites and carbonatite-related deposits.
  3. Auriferous skarn and gold skarn type deposit.
  4. Gold/Silver and vise-versa veins, lodes, mineralized pipes and irregular silicified deposits in fraction, faults + zones.
  5. Auriferous veins, lodes, sheeted zones, saddle reefs in faults and fractures.
  6. Silver/Gold and vise-versa veins, lodes, stockworks and silicified zones in a complex geological environment with sedimentary, volcanic and various igneous intrusive + granitic rocks.
  7. Disseminated and stockrock gold/silver deposits in igneous, volcanic and sedimentary rocks.
  8. Gold deposits in quartz-pebble conglomerates and quartzites.
  9. Eluvial and alluvial placers
  10. Various other gold sources.
Gold Deposit Classification List of 10 Auriferous Types
Gold Deposit Classification

The Extractive Metallurgy of Gold

Gold Deposits Types: List of 10

Gold Deposit Class #1

Auriferous_pegmatites Pegmatites are igneous rocks formed in the final stage of magma crystallizationporphyry_dykesPorphyry Dykecoarse-grained_granitic_deposits_001Coarse-grained graniteAlbitite

Albitite

Gold Deposit Class #2

Carbonatite

Carbonatite

carbolitites_related

Carbonatite Related

Gold Deposit Class #3

gold_skarn_rock_

Auriferous Gold Skarn Type Deposit

Gold Deposit Class #4

Gold_Veins Gold/Silver VeinsSaddle_reefSaddle reef

mineralized_pipe Mineralize pipes

silicified_deposit  Silicified deposits

Gold Deposit Class #5

Auriferous_veins Auriferous veinssaddle_facture

Saddle Fracture

sheeted_zones

Sheeted Zone

Saddle_Fault

Saddle Fault

Gold Deposit Class #6

lode

Auriferous Lode

stockworks

Stockworks

IronCap_Silicified_potassic_altered_intrusive_quartz_chalcopyrite_malachiteSilicified zones intrusiveIntrusive Igneous Rocks

Gold Deposit Class #7

dissiminated_deposit

Disseminated

stockworks

Stockworks

Sedimentary_Rocks

Sedimentary

Volcanic_rock

Volcanic rock

Gold Deposit Class #8

quartz_pebble_conglomerate

Quartz pebble conglomerate

 quartzite

Quartzite

Gold Deposit Class #9

alluvial_placers

Alluvial placers

Eluvial_placer Eluvial placers

Gold “Deposit” Class #10

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