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Archean lode-gold deposits of the Canadian Shield have commonly been regarded as “structurally controlled,” although the precise nature of such control has been the subject of much debate. Prior to about 1975, these deposits were either considered fault related or as a combination of intrusion and fault related. The papers in Structural Geology of Canadian Ore Deposits, published by the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Wilson 1948), and the treatise Gold Deposits of the World, by (1937), present evidence for and reflect such interpretations. Renewed interest in gold deposits as a result of deregulation of the gold price in the 1970’s led to interpretations of these deposits based on the prevailing syngenetic theories for volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits, and these interpretations were presented in a review by (1984).
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Mason, R., Helmstaedt, H.H. (1992). Structural controls during formation and deformation of Archean lode-gold deposits in the Canadian Shield. In: Bartholomew, M.J., Hyndman, D.W., Mogk, D.W., Mason, R. (eds) Basement Tectonics 8. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Basement Tectonics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1614-5_44
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