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Deseado Massif
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<h2 id="economic-geology">Economic geology</h2> <p>The Deseado Massif contains valuable <a href="/facts/Epithermal/hqwwksSm">epithermal</a> <a href="/facts/Gold/1znknojp">gold</a> deposits.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The richness of Deseado Massif in gold may stem from its ancient and enriched <a href="/facts/Subcontinental_lithospheric_mantle/aPSqARQI">mantle lithosphere</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Cerro_Vanguardia_Mine/roR4dye3">Cerro Vanguardia</a> and <a href="/facts/Manantial_Espejo_mine/zIuDhTf6">Manantial Espejo</a> are among the gold mines in the massif.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>In 2017, an international group of scientists, while researching the origins of gold, historically established that it "came to the Earth's surface from the deepest regions of our planet," evidenced by their findings in the Deseado Massif.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Echavarría, Leandro E.; Shalamuk, Isidoro B.; Etcheverry, Ricardo O. (2005). "Geologic and tectonic setting of Deseado Massif epithermal deposits, Argentina, based on El Dorado-Monserrat". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 19 (4): 415–432. Bibcode:2005JSAES..19..415E. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2005.06.005. <a href="/wiki/Journal_of_South_American_Earth_Sciences" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_of_South_American_Earth_Sciences</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Schilling, Manuel Enrique; Carlson, Richard Walter; Tassara, Andrés; Conceição, Rommulo Viveira; Berotto, Gustavo Walter; Vásquez, Manuel; Muñoz, Daniel; Jalowitzki, Tiago; Gervasoni, Fernanda; Morata, Diego (2017). "The origin of Patagonia revealed by Re-Os systematics of mantle xenoliths". Precambrian Research. 294: 15–32. Bibcode:2017PreR..294...15S. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.03.008. hdl:11336/19304. <a href="/wiki/Precambrian_Research" target="_blank">/wiki/Precambrian_Research</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Navarrete, C.; Butler, K.L.; Hurley, M.; Márquez, M. (2020). "An early Jurassic graben caldera of Chon Aike silicic LIP at the southernmost massif of the world: The Deseado caldera, Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 101: 102626. Bibcode:2020JSAES.10102626N. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102626. S2CID 218967058. Retrieved 2022-06-28. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981120301395" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981120301395</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Echavarría, Leandro E.; Shalamuk, Isidoro B.; Etcheverry, Ricardo O. (2005). "Geologic and tectonic setting of Deseado Massif epithermal deposits, Argentina, based on El Dorado-Monserrat". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 19 (4): 415–432. Bibcode:2005JSAES..19..415E. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2005.06.005. <a href="/wiki/Journal_of_South_American_Earth_Sciences" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_of_South_American_Earth_Sciences</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Schilling, Manuel Enrique; Carlson, Richard Walter; Tassara, Andrés; Conceição, Rommulo Viveira; Berotto, Gustavo Walter; Vásquez, Manuel; Muñoz, Daniel; Jalowitzki, Tiago; Gervasoni, Fernanda; Morata, Diego (2017). "The origin of Patagonia revealed by Re-Os systematics of mantle xenoliths". Precambrian Research. 294: 15–32. Bibcode:2017PreR..294...15S. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.03.008. hdl:11336/19304. <a href="/wiki/Precambrian_Research" target="_blank">/wiki/Precambrian_Research</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Echavarría, Leandro E.; Shalamuk, Isidoro B.; Etcheverry, Ricardo O. (2005). "Geologic and tectonic setting of Deseado Massif epithermal deposits, Argentina, based on El Dorado-Monserrat". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 19 (4): 415–432. Bibcode:2005JSAES..19..415E. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2005.06.005. <a href="/wiki/Journal_of_South_American_Earth_Sciences" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_of_South_American_Earth_Sciences</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>UGR University of Grenada via Science Daily, November 21, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018. <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171121095128.htm" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171121095128.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>