Abstract
Orogenic gold deposits are typically dominated by quartz veins in faults. Historic mining at Macraes focused on scattered small quartz veins, with only minor Au production. Modern exploration and mining has developed from these small beginnings into a world class mine operation which has produced >4 million ounces of Au from a total resource exceeding 10 million ounces. The modern Macraes deposit is dominated by deformed and altered metasediments in which gold is disseminated with sulphide minerals, rather than quartz veins.
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Craw, D., MacKenzie, D. (2016). Introduction: Macraes Mine as an Orogenic Gold Deposit. In: Macraes Orogenic Gold Deposit (New Zealand). SpringerBriefs in World Mineral Deposits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35158-2_1
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