Abstract
Advances in Numerical Simulations of Hydrothermal Ore Forming Processes
Highlights
Recent advances in numerical modeling techniques have led to unprecedented opportunities for exploring and quantifying the controlling factors of hydrothermal ore-forming processes
To calculate accurately the stabilities of these minerals, aqueous species, and gases requires the development of adequate activity models, equations of state, and underlying robust thermodynamic databases to correct for pressure, temperature, and nonideality of solutions (e.g., [3])
Solving these problems will enable us to constrain our understanding of metal solubility in hydrothermal fluids as a function of pH, salinity, and the activities of ligands that complex with metals and control their mobility in geologic environments
Summary
Recent advances in numerical modeling techniques have led to unprecedented opportunities for exploring and quantifying the controlling factors of hydrothermal ore-forming processes. Mutual refinement of simulations and data collection from the field makes a very powerful but still emerging tool in geosciences that permits constraining hydrothermal ore-forming processes The purpose of this special issue is to bring together a series of contributions of research and review articles showing recent advances in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models for the simulation of oreforming processes. This issue covers aspects of molecular models of metal speciation, thermodynamics of fluid-rock equilibria, and large-scale physical and chemical reactive mass transport models
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