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DESPITE the great economic importance of the stratigraphically concordant massive sulphide deposits which occur in regionally metamorphosed rocks of pre-Cambrian to Palaeozoic ages in all continents, little is known of their origin. Writers on these deposits, which include those of Mount Isa1, Broken Hill, the Scandinavian Cale-donides2, the Bathurst–Newcastle area3 and the Rhodesian Copperbelt, have tended to accept one of two apparently conflicting views. Some maintain that the deposits are syngenetic4, representing original sedimentary or volcanic sulphides, while others consider them to be epigenetic5, and formed by precipitation from hydrothermal solutions of igneous or metamorphic origin.
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ROBINSON, B., STRENS, R. Genesis of Concordant Deposits of Base Metal Sulphides: an Experimental Approach. Nature 217, 535–536 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217535a0
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