Massive and semi-massive ores fall into five major categories (Table3):
1. Pure inclusion-free massive sulfide ores;
2. Emulsion textured ores formed by frozen mixtures of molten silicate and sulfide, most commonly developed as melt films at thermal erosion contacts;
3. Sulfide matrix ore breccias, of sharp-wall, soft-wall or mixed character,developed by flooding of percolating sulfide matrix through the matrix of original silicate-melt-matrix intrusion breccias;
4. Vein-hosted sulfides formed at late magmatic or high temperature post-emplacement deformation stage close to the brittle-ductile transition in the country rocks or host igneous bodies; closely spaced intersecting vein arrays may produce the appearance of sulfide-matrix breccias in drill core;
5. Tectonic “durchbewegung” breccias, formed in the solid state by mechanical inter-shearing of silicate inclusions and weak, ductile solid sulfides.
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