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Using fluid inclusions in mineral exploration. Main contents index   

• Geochemical exploration using hydro-thermal fluids
  
• An introduction to fluid inclusions and their application in mineral exploration
  
• Mineral exploration using fluid inclusion data - the Baro-acoustic decrepitation method

• Exploration of the Mt. Boppy Au deposit region, Cobar, NSW, Australia:  by K.G.McQueen
  
• Intrusion related gold at Okote, Southern Ethiopia:  by Solomon Geda
  
• Exploring for Au using fluid inclusions in the Tanami region, NT, Australia:  by T. Mernagh
  
• Gold exploration using baro-acoustic decrepitation
• Using Baro-acoustic decrepitation data in exploration at the Drake mineral field, NSW and the application of curve fitting to the decrepitation data
• Understanding baro-acoustic decrepitation. The theorey explained.
  

• Gold-quartz deposits do NOT form from CO₂-only fluids:   Heterogeneous fluid inclusion trapping is everywhere

• Explaining the formation of CO₂-only fluid inclusions
• Gold deposition from heterogeneous aqueous, CO₂-rich fluids: resolving the enigmatic and misleading hypothesis of deposition from CO₂ only fluids.
• Gas dominated inclusion assemblages may be trapped from aqueous dominated heterogeneous fluids by disproportional trapping
• Fluid inclusion morphology can prove heterogeneous inclusion trapping of pure CO₂ inclusions.
  

• Several discussions about incorrect H₂ mass spectrometric analyses due to interference from the ionization of water.
  

• Hydrogen contents of fluid inclusion volatiles should not be analysed by mass spectrometer because the ionizer generates hydrogen from water and hydrocarbons.

• A proposed mechanism for the generation of H₂ from H₂O  in the electron impact ionizer of Mass Spectrometer.  To explain the erroneous H₂ analyses of aqueous Fluid Inclusions
• A discussion and reply on the error of using  mass spectrometry to analyse hydrogen in aqueous analytes.

• Do IOCG deposits form from CO₂-rich fluids?
  
• Why don't exploration geologists use or understand fluid inclusions? (a case study of a porphyry deposit at Cadia, NSW, Aust.)