Development of W-Sn and Rare-Metal Metallogenic Systems in an Orogenic Belt

Dear Colleagues,

Tungsten, tin, and rare metals are regarded as “strategic resources” or “critical material” by the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Energy. They are essential to modern technologies involved in the development of economy, defense, medicine, renewable energy, or infrastructure, and drivers of our lives in the 21st century. This Special Issue represents a cross-disciplinary appeal covering all the processes involved in the formation of W–Sn and rare metal deposits spatially related to granites or pegmatites, from analytical innovations to metallogenic system models, through to metallogenic provinces, granite and enclosing rock geochemistry, mineral chemistry, trace element geochemistry, geochronology of ore and gangue minerals, stable isotopes, fluid inclusions, experimental investigations, and thermodynamical modeling. This issue intends to cover all aspects contributing to the advancement of the understanding of fundamental problems of ore-forming processes: Tracing the sources of ore components and fluids, determination of physicochemical parameters controlling the transport of metals, and mechanisms of accumulation of metals during the formation of ore deposits.

We invite researchers to contribute to the Special Issue: “Development of W-Sn and Rare-Metal Metallogenic Systems in the an Orogenic Belt”.

Prof. Dr. Michel Cuney

Guest Editor

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