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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of a lithocap environment, including that it consists of pyrite-rich, silicic and advanced argillic altered rock surrounded by argillic alteration. Measurements would show a chargeability high, magnetic low, and possibly a resistivity high. The alunite absorption feature at 1480 nm increases toward the heat source. Below the lithocap is an intermediate-sulfidation state with fault-hosted quartz-carbonate-pyrite-gold veins and a geochemical anomaly of gold, silver, zinc, lead and tellurium. Deeper still is a potassic core with either a magnetic high or low and a copper-gold-molybdenum

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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of a lithocap environment, including that it consists of pyrite-rich, silicic and advanced argillic altered rock surrounded by argillic alteration. Measurements would show a chargeability high, magnetic low, and possibly a resistivity high. The alunite absorption feature at 1480 nm increases toward the heat source. Below the lithocap is an intermediate-sulfidation state with fault-hosted quartz-carbonate-pyrite-gold veins and a geochemical anomaly of gold, silver, zinc, lead and tellurium. Deeper still is a potassic core with either a magnetic high or low and a copper-gold-molybdenum

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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of a lithocap environment, including that it consists of pyrite-rich, silicic and advanced argillic altered rock surrounded by argillic alteration. Measurements would show a chargeability high, magnetic low, and possibly a resistivity high. The alunite absorption feature at 1480 nm increases toward the heat source. Below the lithocap is an intermediate-sulfidation state with fault-hosted quartz-carbonate-pyrite-gold veins and a geochemical anomaly of gold, silver, zinc, lead and tellurium. Deeper still is a potassic core with either a magnetic high or low and a copper-gold-molybdenum

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    The document summarizes the key characteristics of a lithocap environment, including that it consists of pyrite-rich, silicic and advanced argillic altered rock surrounded by argillic alteration. Measurements would show a chargeability high, magnetic low, and possibly a resistivity high. The alunite absorption feature at 1480 nm increases toward the heat source. Below the lithocap is an intermediate-sulfidation state with fault-hosted quartz-carbonate-pyrite-gold veins and a geochemical anomaly of gold, silver, zinc, lead and tellurium. Deeper still is a potassic core with either a magnetic high or low and a copper-gold-molybdenum

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    Lithocap: Pyrite-rich stratabound domains of residual silicic and advanced argillic alteration surrounded by argillic alteration

    (chargeability high, magnetic low, silicic zone can define a resistivity high, alunite 1480 nm position that increases toward heat source)

    The
    TheLithocap
    LithocapEnvironment
    Environment
    The Green Rock
    Environment
    High-sulfidation state
    mineralization (fault-hosted
    and/or stratabound Cu-Au-As,
    potential electromagnetic
    anomaly)

    Pyrite halo (root zones of lithocap,


    chargeability high, Zn-Pb-Mn geochemical halo)

    Legend
    Intermediate-
    sulfidation Composite porphyry stock
    state veins
    (fault-hosted Lithocap and structural roots (silicic-, advanced argillic- and
    qtz-cb-py-Au veins, argillic-altered rocks; phyllic and intermediate argillic roots)
    Au-Ag-Zn-Pb-Te)
    Sodic-calcic (ab–epi–chl ± act ± ttn ± di ± gt ± mag ± tur)

    Propylitic – chlorite subzone (chl–ab–cb ± py)


    Potassic core
    (magnetic high or Propylitic – epidote subzone (epi–chl–ab–cb ± py)
    low, Cu-Au-Mo
    geochemical Propylitic – actinolite subzone (act–epi–chl–ab–cb ± py)
    anomaly)
    Potassic (bt–kfs–qtz–anh–bn–ccp–Au ± mag ± py)

    Pyrite halo (outer limit of disseminated pyrite)

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