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This entry is adapted from the peer-reviewed paper 10.3390/min12050529

The porphyry type of hydrothermal mineral deposits is of paramount economic importance because deposits of this type host much of the world’s reserves of Cu, Mo, and Re, as well as much Re and remarkable reserves of critical elements such as Ag, Pd, Te, Se, Bi, Zn, and Pb. Porphyry deposits are conventionally classified into mineralogical–geochemical types according to their dominant valuable components. The most economically important porphyry-type deposits are those of the Cu (Au), Cu–Mo (Au), Mo, and Au types.

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1. Introduction

The porphyry type of hydrothermal mineral deposits is of paramount economic importance because deposits of this type host much of the world’s reserves of Cu, Mo, and Re, as well as much Re and remarkable reserves of critical elements such as Ag, Pd, Te, Se, Bi, Zn, and Pb (e.g., [1][2][3][4]). Porphyry deposits are conventionally classified into mineralogical–geochemical types according to their dominant valuable components, e.g., [3]. The most economically important porphyry-type deposits are those of the Cu (Au), Cu–Mo (Au), Mo, and Au types.
Porphyry deposits have been studied for a long time, and their features have been much discussed in many reviews, e.g., [5]. Detailed reviews were published on the geology and geotectonic settings of porphyry deposits, zoning of the wall-rock metasomatites, and spatiotemporal relations between the ore mineralization and magmatism in porphyry systems, e.g., [3][4][6][7][8][9].
Porphyry deposits contain large reserves of ores with low Cu, Mo, and Au concentrations and are genetically linked to the emplacements and crystallization of melts ranging from diorite to granite in composition. Magma bodies that generate porphyry mineralization are usually constrained to plate margins, e.g., [1][2][3][4][7][8]. Porphyry deposits are usually zonal [10] and are stockworks of disseminated and stringer accumulations of sulfides and oxides hosted in large (up to 10 km3) volumes of hydrothermally altered rocks, which were produced by the large-scale circulation of hydrothermal fluids at upper crustal levels [2][3][4][11][12][13][14]. Porphyry deposits were found in continental magmatic belts worldwide, showing evidence of spatiotemporal and genetic relations to hypabyssal porphyritic diorite and granodiorite intrusions, which were produced by water-rich magmas.
According to the orthomagmatic model [4][10][15][16], porphyry copper mineralized magmas are usually emplaced into upper crustal levels (at depths of approximately 5–10 km). The gradually cooling melts approach their saturation with volatile components [17][18]. As soon as the melt reaches its saturation with volatiles, a phase of aqueous magmatic fluid (whose salinity is not high) is separated from the melt [17][18], and some elements (including sulfur, chlorine, copper, and some other metals) are, therewith, transferred from the melt into the aqueous phase to form mineralized aqueous magmatic fluid [3][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Magmatic fluid ascends along fractures and cracks into the already-solid parts of the intrusions, alters host rocks, and comes, due to the pressure decrease, to the field of two-phase equilibrium, in which pressure is lower than 1300 bar (i.e., the region of ore deposition). In this region, the fluid exsolves (heterogenizes) into two phases: chloride brine and a low-density aqueous fluid [32][33]. The heterogenization of the fluid triggers the onset of ore deposition. The fluids then continue cooling, interacting with rocks and diluted meteoric waters, and depositing ore and gangue minerals [4][12][14][16]. Relics of the mineralizing fluids are captured as fluid inclusions, which can provide a record of the evolution of the parameters and composition of the fluids with time [34]. Many researchers have demonstrated that parameters of mineral-hosted fluid inclusions in porphyry hydrothermal systems systematically vary in space and with time, e.g., [26][31][34][35][36][37][38][39]. A model developed for H2O–NaCl fluid is able to realistically describe the distributions of various types of fluid inclusions (halite-bearing brine inclusions, gas inclusions, and liquid-rich two-phase inclusions) over the volumes of porphyry copper deposits [40]. Assemblages of brine and gas fluid inclusions mark domains with high-grade ores. It is important to specify that the fluid inclusion assemblage (FIA) is usually defined as the most finely discriminated group of cogenetic fluid inclusions occupying an individual petrographic feature (e.g., crystal growth-zone or healed fracture), as is unambiguously recognizable by microscopic methods. This model is able to predict the composition and parameters of fluid inclusions captured by minerals when porphyry fluid–magma systems spatiotemporally develop, which enables one to utilize these data for various practical purposes. Although porphyry deposits were studied in much detail, it is still interesting to correlate current understandings of their genesis with the available data on mineral-hosted fluid inclusions in porphyry Cu–Mo–Au systems.
It is pertinent to mention the following reviews of fluid inclusions in the minerals of porphyry systems, e.g., [5][26][34][38][41][42][43][44][45]. Some reviews were devoted to the parameters and composition of fluid inclusions in minerals from porphyry deposits, e.g., [31][46][47]. Fluid inclusions hosted in minerals at porphyry deposits are still actively studied, and extensive newly acquired data were published after the aforementioned reviews. Differences between the physicochemical parameters of fluids that produced all of the four types of porphyry deposits in the Cu–Mo–Au system still have not been adequately analyzed in the literature, likely because of the very broad variations in the homogenization temperature and salinity of the fluid inclusions.

2. Characterization of Fluids at Porphyry Deposits

When fluid inclusions are characterized, their descriptions are, conventionally, begun with descriptions of how these inclusions look like at room temperature. Fluid inclusions hosted in minerals from porphyry deposits can be grouped into the following three types, according to the phase composition of these inclusions at room temperature (Figure 1).
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Figure 1. Three major types of fluid inclusions typically hosted in quartz from mineralized veinlets at porphyry deposits: (a,b) fluid inclusions of high-temperature chloride brines (the photos show dark gas bubbles, transparent cubic NaCl crystals, opaque chalcopyrite crystals, and solution); (c) gas fluid inclusions (the photos show a gas phase and a pale rim of aqueous solution; (d) two-phase gas–liquid inclusions of aqueous solutions of intermediate salinity (the photos show a roundish gas phase and pale aqueous salt solution). The scale bars are 10 µm. L–aqueous solution, V–gas phase, H–halite, Ch–chalcopyrite.
Type 1. Fluid inclusions of high-salinity brines: these inclusions contain an aqueous solution of high salinity (>26–30 wt % equiv. NaCl), a vapor bubble, and one or more daughter crystals. Among the latter, halite, sylvite, opaque or transparent red crystals of hematite and anhydrite have been identified [34]. The triangular transparent phases are usually identified as chalcopyrite crystals [26][31][34], which provide evidence of a high Cu concentration in the fluid. Recent Raman spectroscopic studies have identified daughter phases of javorieite KFeCl3 [48] and magnetite [49].
Type 2. Gas-rich fluid inclusions (> 70 ± 10 vol % gas).
Type 3. Aqueous salt two-phase fluid inclusions, whose salinity ranges from low to intermediate, and which contain a gas bubble that occupies 30 ± 10 vol %.
Some authors, [46] and others, distinguish an individual type of gas fluid inclusions of intermediate density, which contains an aqueous solution and vapor in equal proportions (L ≈ V), and which, also, sometimes host a small opaque crystal. It is thought that these fluid inclusions captured magmatic fluid at a high temperature and pressure in the region of homogeneous fluid above the vapor−liquid boundary in the system H2O−NaCl, and sometimes contain CO2 [50][51][52]. Such fluid could be entrapped in fluid inclusions at deeper levels than those where the ore mineralization was deposited. Due to this, such fluid inclusions cannot be numerous, and they cannot significantly modify the general situation. Herein, researchers attribute these inclusions to type 2, if such inclusions are mentioned in publications.
Figure 2 and Table 1 show the variations of parameters of mineralizing fluids collectively for all of the fluid inclusions, without subdividing them into types, but only the general ranges of the homogenization temperatures, salinity, and densities of the fluids. Note that the data on low-density fluid inclusions containing a gas phase can be incomplete due to purely technical reasons, namely, due to the small volumes of aqueous fluids in these inclusions, which often make it impossible to microthermometrically study these inclusions. This shall be taken into account when dealing with the data on fluid inclusions. The gas constituent of mineralizing fluid at porphyry deposits is not discussed in this entry because such information is still insufficient and because this information cannot characterize all types of porphyry deposits.
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Figure 2. Diagram temperature–salinity for mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits. 1—fluids at the deposits; 2—saturated KCl solution; 3—saturated NaCl solution.
Table 1. Parameters of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits.
Deposit, Country, or Area Physical Parameters of Fluid Type ** of
Deposit		 References
T, °C S *, wt % d, g/cm3 Р, bar    
Bingham Canyon, USA 405 (1) 49.0 1.25 - 2 [50]
Butte, USA 275–335 (2) 1.0 0.62–0.76 - 2 [50]
Climax, USA 566 (1) 69.0 1.45 - 3 [50]
Copper Canyon, USA 250–345 (3) 1.2–40.0 0.80–1.06 - 1 [53]
Kalmakyr, Uzbekistan 375–800 (7) 33.8–69.0 0.94–1.20 1000–1500 (4) 2 [54]
Bingham Canyon, USA 350–616 (17) 42.0–53.0 0.95–1.21 - 2 [55]
Coloula, Papua New Guinea 400–700 (4) 34.0–62.0 0.60–1.30 1200 (1) 1 [56]
Inguaran district, Mexico 226–360 (17) 11.9–36.0 0.78–1.07 - 1 [57]
Red Mountain, USA 448–576 (6) 52.0–68.0 1.12–1.50 - 1 [58]
Washington, Mexico 364–550 (2) 34.5 0.81–0.98 - 2 [59]
Mines Gaspe, Canada 138-506 (68) 9.5–56.0 0.60–1.25 - 1 [60]
Santa Rita, USA 775 (1) 70.0 1.50 - 2 [61]
Cumobabi, Mexico 235–480 (8) 2.9–50.0 0.63–1.12 - 2 [62]
Questa, USA 150–500 (16) 2.0–57.0 - 800–1400 (8) 3 [25]
Sungun, Iran 215–605 (54) 2.2–59.8 0.54–1.12 - 1 [63]
Far Southeast, Philippines 450–550 (2) 48.5–55.0 1.07–1.25 - 4 [64]
Shotgun, USA 270–509 (8) 28.0–69.0 0.76–1.50 - 2 [65]
Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina 745–845 (2) 62.0 - - 1 [66]
Escondida, Chile 270–680 (10) 3.0–67.0 0.68–1.23 - 1 [67]
Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina 615–845 (3) 45.0–53.0 - - 1 [68]
Rosario, Chile 237–593 (31) 0.7–73.0 0.58–1.65 - 2 [69]
Cerro Colorado, Chile 90–544 (32) 0.1–52.0 0.60–1.30 - 2 [70]
El Teniente Deposit, Chile 262–515 (49) 2.1–60.5 0.47–1.15 - 2 [71]
Bugdainskoe, Russia 205–576 (11) 6.9–70.5 0.66–1.45 - 2 [72]
Fenghuangshan, China 122–620 (100) 3.4–71.5 0.63–1.40   1 [73]
Talatui, Russia 133–611 (50) 0.4–56.3 0.47–1.21 108–3366 (37) 4 [74]
Butte, USA 140–413 (14) 1.0–48.0 0.41–1.14 - 2 [51]
Questa, USA 271–429 (21) 2/8–50/0 0/43–1/12 - 3 [52]
La Caridad Antigua, Mexico 330–470 (13) 28.0–56.0 0.95–1.15 - 1 [75]
Nevados de Famatina, Argentina 175–552 (22) 1.5–64.4 0.46–1.48 - 2 [76]
Xiongcun, China 121–382 (37) 1.9–34.6 0.59–1.16 - 1 [77]
Qiyugou, China 157–460 (24) 3.7–37.2 0.58–1.02 - 4 [78]
Bingham Canyon, USA 323–492 (3) 34.7–50.4 0.90–1.10 - 2 [79]
Baogutu, China 151–550 (90) 0.2–66.8 0.46–1.22 307–3128 (9) 2 [80]
Qiyugou, China 109–476 (21) 3.9–47.0 0.65–1.10 - 4 [81]
Xishizishan, China 131–570 (7) 1.1–54.5 0.87–1.12 - 1 [82]
Huashupo, China 191–525 (10) 9.6–49.9 0.70–1.01 - 1 [82]
Datuanshan, China 205–437 (7) 7.6–43.8 0.72–1.09 - 1 [82]
Tongguanshan, China 289–885 (12) 6.0–44.9 0.64–1.16 - 1 [82]
Shizishan, China 148–600 (11) 2.1–56.2 0.52–1.10   1 [82]
Shizishan, China 158–610 (13) 2.1–56.2 0.56–1.19 - 1 [83]
Shaxi, China 110–520 (10) 8.0–58.0 0.71–1.13 - 1 [83]
Tongniujing, China 192–450 (3) 30.0–48.0 1.00–1.11 - 1 [83]
Xiaomiaoshan, China 91–369 (4) 0.7–43.0 0.81–1.14 - 1 [83]
Baocun, China 240–310 (4) 16.1–26.0 0.91–1.01 - 1 [84]
Datuanshan, China 160–440 (12) 8.7–29.3 0.67–1.03 - 1 [84]
Dongguashan, China 170–450 (7) 17.0–53.3 0.93–1.12 - 1 [84]
Chaoshan, China 220–280 (2) 17.0 0.91–0.98 - 1 [84]
Duobuza, China 616–957 (33) 34.0–74.0 0.75–1.80 400–1600 (15) 1 [85]
Mount Leyshon, Australia 150–595 (64) 0.2–61.9 0.38–1.13 - 4 [86]
Bingham Canyon, USA 313–610 (121) 3.3–59.0 0.42–1.21 - 2 [87]
Novoe Manto, Russia 100–365 (9) 9.6–24.2 0.86–1.15 - 1 [88]
Jinchang, China 200–620 (42) 0.4–74.0 0.40–1.55 - 1 [89]
Maher-Abad, Iran 150–488 (20) 9.5–47.9 0.80–1.13 - 1 [90]
Peschanka, Russia 205–506 (10) 0.2–55.0 0.4–1.11 - 1 [91]
Kighal, Iran 180–600 (6) 23.0–70.0 0.79–1.50   2 [92]
Malysh, Russia 129–545 (26) 0.7–47.0 0.55–1.09 270–470 (2) 3 [93]
Peschanka, Russia 104–506 (40) 0.2–55.7 0.43–1.36 220–540 (8) 1 [93]
Nakhodka, Russia 122–581 (10) 2.1–57.8 0.51–1.14 280–850 (3) 1 [93]
Dexing, China 105–524 (33) 1.1–63.0 0.58–1.19 1500–3000 (2) 2 [94]
Vasil’kovskoe, Kazakhstan 100–550 (126) 2.0–22.5 0.47–1.03 150–2300 (69) 4 [95]
Malmyzh, Russia 331–850 (9) 27.0–80.0 0.95–1.13 - 1 [96]
Pebble, USA 147–535 (157) 0.1–61.0 0.41–1.20 - 2 [97]
Qarachilar, Iran 190–530 (15) 9.2–55.0 0.65–1.12 - 2 [98]
Machangqing, China 202–550 (15) 12.7–22.1 0.51–1.09 - 2 [99]
Yulong, China 220–600 (20) 2.0–46.0 0.48–1.07 - 2 [99]
Tongchang, China 240–460 (15) 2.0–52.0 0.80–1.13 - 2 [99]
Seleteguole, China 268–483 (54) 2.1–57.4 0.48–1.14 - 2 [100]
Malmyzh, Russia 260–525 (10) 0.4–60.0 0.45–1.14 500 (2) 1 [101]
Grasberg, Indonesia 255–700 (25) 6.4–74.7 0.48–1.12 - 1 [102]
№ 1, China 132–522 (104) 0.9–62.8 0.41–1.19   1 [103]
Kışladağ, Turkey 250–600 (35) 1.0–49.0 0.47–1.04 - 4 [104]
Grasberg, Indonesia 228–700 (403) 1.4–88.0 0.625–1.47 - 1 [105]
Sadaigoumen, China 211–510 (122) 1.2–50.6 - 10–600 (8) 3 [106]
Note: * fluid salinity in wt % equiv. NaCl (numerals in parentheses show the number of determinations); ** types of porphyry deposits: 1–Cu (Au); 2–Cu, Mo (Au); 3–Mo; 4–Au.
Overall ranges of the physicochemical parameters. The principal parameters of mineralizing fluids at individual porphyry deposits of various types in the Cu−Mo−Au system are listed in Table 1. In general, the ranges of the principal physicochemical parameters of fluids at porphyry deposits are fairly broad, as follows from the data on 2414 groups of fluid inclusions (Figure 2, Table 2): the homogenization temperatures of the fluid inclusions range from 90 to 957 °C (388 °C on average). As seen in the histogram in Figure 3, most of the fluids were entrapped into fluid inclusions at temperatures of 200 to 500 °C. Note that publications usually present homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions. However, it is now acknowledged that mineral-forming processes at porphyry deposits begin when the fluid becomes heterogeneous [32][33]. It is known that if fluid inclusions are entrapped on a two-phase equilibrium curve, the homogenization temperatures of these inclusions are equal to their entrapment temperatures [34]. Hence, the homogenization temperatures of early mineral-hosted fluid inclusions at porphyry deposits usually correspond to their entrapment temperatures, which allowed researchers to discuss the fluid temperatures here.
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Figure 3. Histogram of the temperature of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits.
Table 2. Parameters of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits of different types.
Types *
of
Deposits		 n Temperature, °C Salinity, wt. % Density of Fluid, g/cm3
Interval Average Arithmetic Average Geometric Interval Average Arithmetic Average
Geometric		 Interval Average Arithmetic Average
Geometric
All 2414 90–957 388 372 0.1-88.0 29.4 28.2 0.38–1.85 0.93 0.95
1 1017 91–957 437 421 0.2-88.0 39.4 41.4 0.40–1.85 1.00 1.00
2 923 90–800 359 363 0.1-73.0 26.3 28.6 0.41–1.65 0.91 0.96
3 193 129–566 349 354 0.7-69.0 13.8 8.5 0.43–1.45 0.85 0.83
4 280 100–611 329 341 0.2-61.9 13.0 9.0 0.38–1.25 0.81 0.81
Note: * types of porphyry deposits: 1–Cu (Au); 2–Cu, Mo (Au); 3–Mo; 4–Au; n: number of measurements.
It shall be mentioned that some papers report homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions higher than 600 °C, with these values obtained using high-temperature heating stages. Such data usually provoke no doubts, if the publication reports information that these data are reproducible. However, researchers rejected homogenization temperatures above 700 °C (up to 1290 °C) obtained for the Grasberg deposit [102][105], since the authors themselves were not sure whether these values do characterize the processes that produced the ores. Indeed, fluids at porphyry deposits contain much Fe and can lose protons because of water dissociation when heated to very high temperatures; the protons can migrate from the fluid inclusions through their host quartz and, thus, irreversibly change the composition of the fluid inclusions and result in overestimates of their homogenization temperatures, e.g., [34][107][108].
The salinity of the mineralizing fluids varies from 0.1 to 88.0 wt % equiv. NaCl (29.4 wt % equiv. NaCl on average). Some salinity values of fluids at porphyry deposits extend outside the H2O–NaCl saturation line, but they are no higher than the KCl solubility. (Figure 2). This is consistent with the sylvite that was found among the daughter minerals in fluid inclusions and with the occurrence of potassic metasomatites at porphyry deposits. The histogram of the salinity of the fluids has two maxima, at 0 to 10 and 35 to 45 wt % (Figure 4). This reflects the heterogenization of fluid, a process during which porphyry deposits start to be formed.
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Figure 4. Histogram of the salinity of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits.
The density of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits also varies broadly, from 0.33 to 1.85 g/cm3 (average 0.93 g/cm3), since this parameter is interrelated with, first of all, the temperature and salinity of the fluids. The maximum variations in the fluid density were found at temperatures above 300 °C (Figure 5), which is also related to the heterogenization of the fluids. Below 200 °C, the density of the fluids approaches 1 g/cm3 because of the temperature decrease and the occurrence of the fluid in the homogeneous region. The histogram of the fluid density is unimodal, with its maximum occurring at 1.00 to 1.10 g/cm3 (Figure 6).
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Figure 5. Diagram temperature–density for mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits.
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Figure 6. Histogram of the density of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits.
Some systematic differences were found between the average and maximum values of the parameters of the mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits of various types (Table 2, Figure 7).
Figure 7. Temperature–salinity diagram for mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits of different types.
The average homogenization temperatures, salinity, and density of the fluids at deposits of various types commonly systematically decrease from deposits of type 1 to those of type 4. Figure 7 shows that the variations of the homogenization temperatures and salinity of the fluids at deposits of various types are generally similar, but the fields of these variations systematically shrink. This situation is not universal for the maximum homogenization temperatures. The minimum values of the maximum homogenization temperatures of fluids were found at porphyry Mo deposits (type 3), which may be explained by the fact that the numbers of measurements at deposits of types 3 and 4 are smaller.
The great scatter of fluid parameters at each deposit (for example, the temperature ranges within a few hundred grades) inevitably puts forth the problem of the significance of the detected differences (for example, the average temperatures vary within as little as 10–40 °C) between the average parameters of fluids at porphyry deposits of different types. To sort out anomalous outlier values and be able to more accurately compare available data on various parameters, including those in the regions with 50% of the data (Figure 8), researchers have constructed boxplots. The diagram for the temperatures (Figure 8), obviously, shows that porphyry copper deposits of type 1 are noted for the highest maximum and average homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions. Porphyry copper–molybdenum deposits of type 2 show intermediate values of the average and maximum temperatures, and porphyry molybdenum deposits of type 3 and porphyry gold deposits of type 4 are relatively low temperature. The situation with the salinity diagrams is generally analogous for the maximum and average values of this parameter (Figure 8). The highest salinity is typical of fluids at porphyry copper deposits of type 1, intermediate salinity values were found in fluids at porphyry molybdenum deposits of type 2, and the lowest values were detected in fluids at molybdenum deposits of type 3 and porphyry gold deposits of type 4. It should be mentioned that fluids at porphyry molybdenum deposits of type 3 and porphyry gold ones of type 4 yield the narrowest ranges of the dominant salinity values of the fluids. The density values of the fluids do not vary as widely (Figure 8), but the average density of the fluids, obviously and systematically, decreases from type 1 (Cu(Au)) to type 4 (Au). This led researchers to the conclusion that mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits of different types are different in composition and have different parameters.
Figure 8. Boxplots for the homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions, for the salinity of mineralizing fluids and for the density of mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits of various types (1–Cu (Au); 2–Cu, Mo (Au); 3–Mo; 4–Au).
Here and in Figure 9, lines in the boxes are medians, crosses are averages, and spots are outliers (https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-boxplots-5e2df7bcbd51, accessed on 11 September 2018).
Figure 9. Boxplots for concentrations of Cu, Fe, Mo, and Ag, in mineralizing fluids at porphyry deposits of various types (1–Cu (Au); 2–Cu, Mo (Au); 3–Mo; 4–Au).

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