Saintilan Nicolas J., Spangenberg Jorge E., Chiaradia Massimo, Chelle-Michou Cyril, Stephens Michael B., Fontboté Lluís (2019), Petroleum as source and carrier of metals in epigenetic sediment-hosted mineralization, in
Scientific Reports, 9(1), 8283-8283.
Kouzmanov K., Audétat A., Wälle M., Ubrig N., Ortelli M., Fontboté L., Casanova V. (2018), Fluid Inclusion Studies in Opaque Ore Minerals: II. A Comparative Study of Syngenetic Synthetic Fluid Inclusions Hosted in Quartz and Opaque Minerals, in
Economic Geology, 113(8), 1861-1883.
Rottier Bertrand, Kouzmanov Kalin, Casanova Vincent, Bouvier Anne-Sophie, Baumgartner Lukas P., Wälle Markus, Fontboté Lluís (2018), Mineralized breccia clasts: a window into hidden porphyry-type mineralization underlying the epithermal polymetallic deposit of Cerro de Pasco (Peru), in
Mineralium Deposita, 53(7), 919-946.
Fontboté Lluís (2018), Ore Deposits of the Central Andes, in
Elements, 14(4), 257-261.
Rottier B., Kouzmanov K., Casanova V., Wälle M., Fontboté L. (2018), Cyclic Dilution of Magmatic Metal-Rich Hypersaline Fluids by Magmatic Low-Salinity Fluid: A Major Process Generating the Giant Epithermal Polymetallic Deposit of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, in
Economic Geology, 113(4), 825-856.
Fontboté Lluís, Saintilan Nicolas J. (2018), Reply to discussion of “A refined genetic model for the Laisvall and Vassbo Mississippi Valley-type sandstone-hosted deposits, Sweden: constraints from paragenetic studies, organic geochemistry, and S, C, N, and Sr isotope data” by D. Sangster, in
Mineralium Deposita, 53(2), 295-297.
Fontboté Lluís, Kouzmanov Kalin, Chiaradia Massimo, Pokrovski Gleb S. (2017), Sulfide Minerals in Hydrothermal Deposits, in
Elements, 13(2), 97-103.
Arndt Nicholas T., Fontboté Lluís, Hedenquist Jeffrey W., Kesler Stephen E., Thompson John F.H., Wood Daniel G. (2017), Future Global Mineral Resources, in
Geochemical Perspectives, 1-171.
Saintilan Nicolas J., Stephens M.B., Spikings R., Schneider J., Chiaradia M., Spangenebrg Jorge E., Ulianov Alexey, Fontboté Lluís (2017), Polyphase vein mineralization in the Fennoscandian Shield at Åkerlandet, Järvsand, and Laisvall along the erosional front of the Caledonian orogen, Sweden, in
Mineralium Deposita, 52, 823-844.
Saintilan N. J. Spangenberg J. E. Samankassou E. Kouzmanov K. Chiaradia M. Stephens M. B. (2016), A refined genetic model for the Laisvall and Vassbo Mississippi Valley-type sandstone-hosted deposits, Sweden: constraints from paragenetic studies, organic geochemistry, and S, C, N, and Sr isotope d, in
Mineralium Deposita, 51, 639-664.
Rottier Bertrand, Kouzmanov Kalin, Bouvier Anne-Sophie, Baumgartner Lukas P., Wälle Markus, Rezeau Hervé, Bendezú Ronner, Fontboté Lluís (2016), Heterogeneous melt and hypersaline liquid inclusions in shallow porphyry type mineralization as markers of the magmatic-hydrothermal transition (Cerro de Pasco district, Peru), in
Chemical Geology, 447, 93-116.
Rottier B. Kouzmanov K. Wälle M. Bendezú R. & Fontboté L. (2016), Sulfide replacement processes revealed by textural and LA-ICP-MS trace element analyses: Example from the early mineralization stages at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, in
Economic Geology, 111, 1347-1367.
Saintilan Nicolas J., Stephens Michael B., Lundstam Erik, Fontboté Lluís (2015), Control of reactivated Proterozoic basement structures on sandstone-hosted Pb-Zn deposits along the Caledonian front, Sweden: Evidence from airborne magnetic data, structural analysis, and ore-grade m, in
Economic Geology, 110, 91-117.
Sub-project A "FLUID EVOLUTION IN THE MIOCENE POLYMETALLIC CORDILLERAN DEPOSITS OF COLQUIJIRCA AND CERRO DE PASCO" (Continuation of two Ph.D. thesis projects, supervision Prof. L. Fontboté and Dr. K. Kouzmanov) focuses on the evolution of ore-forming fluids generating Cordilleran polymetallic mineralization in the shallow epithermal environment of porphyry systems. The Colquijirca and Cerro de Pasco deposits in central Peru are revisited. Recently our group provided the first evidence about multiple porphyry events in Cerro de Pasco, prior to and possibly post-dating polymetallic mineralization, thus suggesting complex and polyphase evolution of these systems. Using the existing detailed descriptions on their geology, mineral and alteration zonation, high-precision geochronology data set on various magmatic and hydrothermal events, the goal of the present project is to constrain the physical parameters and chemical composition of the mineralizing fluids in both deposits and their evolution in time. At Cerro de Pasco, having more complex history, mineralizing fluid evolution is traced from the early high P-T porphyry environment trough the shallow low P-T epithermal environment, to a late stage shallow porphyry system. Melt inclusion study is a complementary part of the project, aiming to define metal, sulphur and volatile content of silicate melts during late stages of crystallization in a shallow crustal magma chamber, and their partition into magmatic fluids. At Colquijirca, displaying classical lateral metal zoning pattern, the fluid inclusion study aims to decipher the factors controlling metal zonation in Cordilleran systems. Combination of analytical techniques allows robust data set of PVTX properties of inclusion fluids to be created - visible and near-IR light microthermometry, Raman spectroscopy, LA-ICP-MS, O isotope analyses on minerals, Sr, Pb, Cl and potentially Cu isotopes, and cation and anion analyses by chromatography.The work is structured in the following way:A1) Ph.D. student Vincent Casanova (Ph.D. thesis started on 1 April 2012): Fluid processes and deposition mechanisms in a zoned high-sulfidation carbonate-replacement epithermal system: Colquijirca, Peru.A2) Ph.D. student Bertrand Rottier (Ph.D. thesis started on 1 October 2012): Fluid evolution in the shallow part of a porphyry system: melt and fluid inclusion study at Cerro de Pasco, central PeruSub-project B "SPATIAL CONTROLS, AGE AND ORIGIN OF STRATABOUND SANDSTONE-HOSTED AND VEIN PB-ZN DEPOSITS ON THE SWEDISH CALEDONIDES" (request for 1 month salary for Ph.D. student Nicolas Saintilan, supervision Prof. L. Fontboté and Dr. Michael Stephens, Geological Survey of Sweden, Upsala). Since this project is almost finalized and has followed the plan detailed in the last proposal, we just list the accepted and submitted publications, as well as manuscripts in progress.Not approved: Sub-project C "MAGMATIC-HYDROTHERMAL TRANSITION IN THE WORLD CLASS Sn DISTRICT OF SAN RAFAEL, PERU» (request for a new Ph.D. position, supervision Dr. K. Kouzmanov and Prof. L. Fontboté) focuses on the fluid processes at the magmatic-hydrothermal transition in a world-class Sn-Cu deposit, associated with peraluminous granitic magmatism - the San Rafael-Quenamari magmatic-hydrothermal system in southern Peru. This subproject C tackles the time scale of late-magmatic hydrothermal processes, factors controlling the segregation and release of magmatic fluids from the crystallizing magma, and the mineralizing potential of these fluids. The system displays striking vertical metal zonation, and the fluid inclusion study aims to highlight the mechanisms of ore metal precipitation responsible for this zonation. The projects builds up on excellent published geological, mineralogical and geochemical information as on own experience in the area. New equipment allows performing various analyses (high-precision U-Pb TIMS dating, melt and fluid inclusion studies) on samples with quantitative textural control (Qemscan) and high spatial resolution isotope analyses (oxygen, hydrogen, boron - ion probe SwissSIMS) on magmatic and hydrothermal minerals and so gain new insight on the parameters that control the magmatic-hydrothermal transition in this kind of deposits. In addition, physical parameters and chemical compositions of ore-forming fluids will be studied with already routinely used analytical methods described in sub-project A.