Changing Thoughts About Mineral Deposits: The 5th to 28th IGC

Brian J. Skinner

doi:10.18814/epiiugs/1987/v10i4/014

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Episodes 1987; 10(4): 297-302

Published online December 1, 1987

https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/1987/v10i4/014

Changing Thoughts About Mineral Deposits: The 5th to 28th IGC

Brian J. Skinner

Geology and Geophysics at Yale University (New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.)

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Abstract

A century ago North American geologists showed little interest in the genesis of ore deposits, but by the time of the 1933 IGC in Washington there was a major emphasis on magmatic hydrothermalism, led by Waldemar Lindgren. This review traces the development of thinking on ore deposits to the contemporary focus on mineral deposit models.