Episodic porphyry Cu (-Mo-Au) formation and associated magmatic evolution in Turkish Tethyan collage

Variation of Cu, Fe, S and Pb isotopes in sulfides from hydrothermal mineralization from the Yenice region in Çanakkale, Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey

“…The Neotethyan orogen is marked by a major porphyry-related mineralized zone that extends across central and southeast Europe, Turkey, and Iran through the Himalayan region to Indochina, and is one of the world's largest metallogenic belts (Richards, 2015). The Biga Peninsula is a part of the Serbo-Macedonian-Rhodope metallogenic belt in the Balkans, which is essentially the eastward continuation of this orogenic belt in the northeastern of the Aegean region, and hosts numerous world-class porphyry, epithermal, and skarn deposits (e.g., Yiğit, 2012;Richards, 2015;Sánchez et al, 2016;Menant et al, 2018;Kuşcu et al, 2019). Although the western segment is highly prospective and has been extensively explored, the east of the Biga Peninsula (which includes the Yenice region) has received less attention (Fig.…”

“…Hydrothermal systems in the region (i.e., porphyry and epithermal deposits) are spatially and temporally associated with the development of the Cenozoic volcanic activity (Yiğit, 2012;Kuşcu et al, 2019). The Cenozoic volcanism in the Biga Peninsula is characterized by extensive post-collisional volcanic associations developed interruptedly between ~43 and 15 Ma (i.e., from the Middle Eocene to Upper Miocene) (Ersoy et al, 2017).…”

Metallogeny of the Tethyan Orogenic Belt: From Mesozoic Magmatic Arcs to Cenozoic Back-Arc and Postcollisional Settings in Southeast Europe, Anatolia, and the Lesser Caucasus: An Introduction

“…The Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic ore deposits mainly include porphyry Au-Cu-Mo deposits, skarn, and high-to intermediate-sulfidation epithermal systems with primarily gold and associated base metals (e.g., Yig it, 2009;İmer et al, 2013, 2016Kuşcu et al, 2013Kuşcu et al, , 2019a and subsidiary iron ore Au-Cu (Kuşcu et al, 2011) and Carlin-type deposits (Çolakoglu et al, 2011). The associated magmatism is dominantly calc-alkaline and locally shoshonitic or adakitic in composition.…”

Protracted metallogenic and magmatic evolution of the Kirazlı epithermal Au-Ag and porphyry Cu deposits, Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey: evidence from zircon U-Pb, muscovite 40Ar/39Ar, and molybdenite Re-Os geochronology

“…1 B) These deposits and prospects are associated with arc magmatism, accompanied and overprinted by extensional and strike-slip tectonics from the early Eocene to the middle Miocene ( ca. 52–18 Ma, Yiğit 2012 ; Kuşcu et al 2019a ). Sánchez et al ( 2016 ) suggested that the porphyry Cu systems and many epithermal deposits formed synchronously with regional-scale post-orogenic extension at the Biga Peninsula.…”