The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is located in the SW of the Iberian Peninsula, forming an arch about 240 km long and 35 km wide, extending from Grândola (Portugal) to Seville (Spain). It represents ...

The Cercal Volcano-Sedimentary Complex (Cercal VSC) structure is the westernmost sector of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) giant metallogenic province and was explored since Roman times for volcanogenic massive sulphides (VMS) and Fe Mn (Ba) deposits. However, presently only a single deposit is known, the Salgadinho Cu-Ag-Au …

A general description of the Pyrite Belt geology has been given among others, by Strauss (1965, 1970); Schermerhorn (1971) and Strauss et al. (1977). Accord­ ing to Strauss (1965, 1970), the rocks of this belt are grouped into three units (from bottom to top): a) The basal Slate-Quartzite Group ("Phyllite-Quartzite Group", Schermerhorn

The Tharsis deposit (Filón Norte orebody), with original reserves of over 100 Mt at 0.5 Cu %, 0.6 Pb %, 2.7% Zn, 22 g/t Ag and 0.7 g/t Au (Tornos 2006), is one of the most important deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt.This metallogenic province, with more than 2,500 Mt, is considered as the major concentration of massive sulphide deposits in …

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), SW Spain and Portugal, contains about 100 abandoned mine wastes and galleries that release acid mine drainages (AMD) to the Tinto and Odiel rivers. In situ passive ...

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is a volcanogenic massive sulfide province located in the SW of the Iberian Peninsula, which is characterized by the highest concentration of VHMS deposits in the ...

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is a late Devonian – Early Carboniferous world-class polymetallic VMS province that includes significant Cu-(Sn)-Pb-Zn-(Ag) deposits of massive sulphides and feeder zones. The Aljustrel brownfield region contains one of the highest concentrations of ore in the IPB in 6 known deposits (Gavião, São João, Moinho ...

IBW project hosted within the renowned Iberian Pyrite Belt, one of the most productive volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) terranes in the world; Nuevo Tintillo site contains …

Pyrite mining has been conducted on the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Southwest Spain and Portugal) for over 5,000 years . Massive sulfide deposits are widespread throughout the region, and are hosted by a …

The Iberian Pyrite Belt is one of the four Variscan structural units distinguished by Quesada, (1991) in the South Portuguese Zone (Figs 1 and 2). It is bounded to the north by the Pulo do Lobo oceanic terrane and to the south by the Baixo Alentejo Flysch Group. The main feature of the Iberian Pyrite Belt is the occurrence of …

1. Introduction. The Las Cruces orebody is located at the eastern corner of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), 25 km northwest of Seville (Spain), and it is covered by a detrital and carbonate sequence, 150-m-thick, of the Guadalquivir foreland Basin. The Las Cruces deposit included a polymetallic massive sulfide orebody and a Cu-rich stockwork.

65 53 The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) has been continuously explored and The mobilization and enrichment of precious metals in oxidizing and 66 N 54 mined for more than 4500 years (Nocete et al., 2005; Sáez et al., acidic environments are well documented (Benedetti and Bouleguè, 67 55 2003) and includes precious metals within massive sulfide ...

Abstract. The Spanish-Portuguese Pyrite Belt covers a large area in the SW part of the Iberian Peninsula. Known reserves of massive pyrite and cupreous stockwork ore …

This Guidebook contains information to support the three SEG field trips included in the SEG Neves Corvo Field Conference 1997 (Lisbon, May 11–14, 1997). …

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is an E-W 250 km long by 20-70 km wide VMS district in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula (Fig. 72A, Inverno et al., 2015). The original mineralization and ...

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is one of the world's largest massive sulphide provinces and has been continuously explored and mined since prehistoric times resulting in more than 80 mines across Spain and Portugal, including the large Rio Tinto and Neves Corvo deposits (e.g. Leistel et al., 1998, Nocete et al., 2005, Sáez et al., 2003; Fig ...

The end result observable today, just in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW of Spain) (Fig. 1), is a legacy of more than 4000 ha of areas affected by a history of mining—not restored—resulting in the appearance of thousands of kilometres of channels with remarkably high levels of pollution (Table 1).

The Yangshan gold belt is situated at the apex of the arc in the eastern portion of the Wenxian structural belt, which lies in the western section of the Mianlue suture zone within the South Qinling Subbelt (Liang et al., 2014, Liang et al., 2019, Yang et al., 2016, Li et al., 2019) (see Fig. 1).The belt extends from Tangpugou in the west to …

Examples of acid mine drainage generation in mines sites of the Iberian Pyrite Belt: (a) Esperanza mine portal (pH 2.6); (b) Lomero mine portal (pH 2.9); (c) Seepage from a waste pile in ...

The Neves-Corvo volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposit stands out among the numerous Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) deposits, as well as among other VHMS deposits worldwide, due to its unique massive cassiterite mineralization (up to 60% SnO 2), extremely high-grade cupriferous ores (the initial resource was 34 Mt @ 8.5% Cu; the …

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (I PB) corresponds to an area of Devonian-Carboniferous volcanic and. sedimentary rocks c ontaining massive polymeta llic sulfide deposits. This area forms an arc uate ...

The outcropping São Domingos Iberian Pyrite Belt deposit was mined since Roman time and between 1857 and 1966. The mine is formed by a 120 m depth flooded open pit and galleries until 420 m depth.

Summary. The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), located in Spain and Portugal, is one of the world's largest polymetallic massive sulphide complexes with predominantly Cu, Pb and Zn …

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) corresponds to an area of Devonian-Carboniferous volcanic and sedimentary rocks containing massive polymetallic sulfide deposits. This area forms an arcuate belt, about 250 km long and up to 60 km wide, trending westwards from near Seville in Spain to west-northwest in South Portugal. Both …

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) is a volcanic- and shale-hosted massive sulfides world-class province of the Upper Paleozoic age that includes some supergiant ore deposits with a unique mining operations history. An extensive soil (multi-element) geochemical survey in the IPB has been performed to create a geochemical database to increase the …

Poderosa Mine is an abandoned pyrite mine, located in the Iberian Pyrite Belt which pours its AMD-polluted waters into the river Odiel (Grande et al. 2013). The stream under study is approximately ...

As regards Spain, the contamination from the metal sulfide mines in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB), in Andalusia, to the north of the province of Huelva (Fig. 1), is outstanding for its age and size. Spreading over an area 230 km long and approximately 50 km wide, it is one of the largest metallogenic regions in the world, with massive sulfide ...