Organic Matter and Mineralisation: Thermal Alteration, Hydrocarbon Generation and Role in Metallogenesis

Introduction: ‘Soft-rock’ petroleum-type approach to exploration for ‘hard-rock’ minerals in sedimentary basins.- I: Processes and Indicators in Organic—Metal Interaction.- 1 Alteration and migration processes of organic matter in hydrothermal systems and implications for metallogenesis.- 2 Paragenesis of gold- and hydrocarbon-bearing fluids in gold deposits.- 3 Trace elements and Sr isotopic composition of waters from the Great Artesian Basin of Australia: Implications for the formation of ore deposits and hydrocarbon resources.- II: Proterozoic Organic—Metal Interactions.- 4 Nature of organic matter in the early Proterozoic, earliest life forms and metal associations.- 5 Organic and mineral matter in a Precambrian shungite deposit from Karelia, Russia.- 6 Influence of basin fill architecture on fluid flow and ore genesis in the Mount Isa Basin, Northern Australia.- 7 Metallogenesis and hydrocarbon generation in northern Mount Isa Basin, Australia; Implications for ore grade mineralization.- III: Palaeozoic: Hydrothermal Systems and Sediment-Hosted Ore Bodies.- 8 Volcanic and post-volcanic hydrothermal activity in the Intrasudetic Basin, SW Poland: Implications for mineralization.- 9 Organic matter and metal enrichment in black shales of the Illinois Basin, USA.- 10 Organic matter from Zechstein copper deposits (Kupferschiefer) in Poland.- 11 Metalloporphyrin composition and a model for the early diagenetic mineralization of the Permian Kupferschiefer, SW Poland.- 12 The carbonate-hosted base-metal sulphide Polaris deposit in the Canadian Arctic: Organic matter alteration and clay diagenesis.- 13 Nature and source of carbonate mineralization in Bowen Basin coals, Eastern Australia.- 14 Minerals in coal.- 15 Mineralization in eastern Australia coals: Afunction of oil generation and primary migration.- IV: Mesozoic to Recent.- 16 Implications of hydrocarbons in gold-bearing epithermal systems: Selected examples from the Canadian Cordillera.- 17 The association of gold—mercury mineralization and hydrocarbons in the coastal ranges of northern California.- 18 Thermal history of selected sedimentary basins in an island arc: evidence from organic matter and fluid inclusions.- 19 Nannobacteria, fiction or fact?.- V.- 20 Summary and Future Directions.