Application of fractal models to delineate mineralized zones in the Pulang porphyry copper deposit, Yunnan, southwestern China

Wang, Xiaochen; Xia, Qinglin; Li, Tongfei; Leng, Shuai; Li, Yanling; Kang, Li; Chen, Zhijun; Wu, Lianrong

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-267-2019

Articles | Volume 26, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-267-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-26-267-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 3

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20 Aug 2019

Research article |

| 20 Aug 2019

Application of fractal models to delineate mineralized zones in the Pulang porphyry copper deposit, Yunnan, southwestern China

Xiaochen Wang, Qinglin Xia, Tongfei Li, Shuai Leng, Yanling Li, Li Kang, Zhijun Chen, and Lianrong Wu

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RC1: 'General and specific comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Apr 2019
- AC1: 'Replying the referee comment 1', Q.,. Xia, 20 May 2019
RC2: 'R2- Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Replying the referee comment 2', Q.,. Xia, 09 Jul 2019

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AR by Q.,. Xia on behalf of the Authors (26 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (26 Jul 2019) by Behzad Ghanbarian

Short summary

We utilized N-S, C-V and S-V fractal models to delineate different grades of mineralization in the Pulang deposit. The high-grade mineralization determined by S–V has a better correlation with potassic alteration zones resulting from the 3-D geological model than from N-S and C-V models. The highly and moderately mineralized zones obtained from the fractal models are both situated in the southern and central parts of the Pulang deposit and coincide with potassic and phyllic alteration zones.