“…In the Ipitinga Auriferous District of the Carecuru Domain, the peak of metamorphism for the metavolcano-sedimentary Ipitinga Group that hosts the gold mineralisation at Carará has been estimated at 530 to 540 °C and 3 to 4 kbar (lower amphibolite facies), with retrogression to the greenschist facies at 250 to 450 °C and 0.7 to 2.3 kbar (Faraco et al, 2006). The timing of this metamorphic event has been constrained by U-Th-Pb dating of monazite from a calc-alkaline diorite of the Carecuru Intrusive Suite, which yielded an age of 2038 ± 6 Ma (Rosa-Costa et al, 2008).…”