Analytical solutions for ore fluid transport in fractured rocks: a case study on ore‐forming processes of the stratabound skarn copper deposits in China.

The Dongguashan skarn copper deposit can be considered as the product of the transport‐chemical reaction coupling process of ore‐forming materials (for example, complexes of copper) in discrete, parallel fractures in a porous medium system. A mathematical model of metallogenesis has been established and the accurate analytical solutions for depicting the transport of ore‐forming materials have been worked out. In establishing the model of metallogenesis and working out the analytical solutions, the following aspects have been taken into consideration: (1) advective transport along fractures; (2) diffusion and longitudinal mechanical dispersion of ore‐forming materials (solutes) along the fracture axis; (3) diffusion of ore‐forming materials from the fractures to the wall media; (4) adsorption of ore‐forming materials on the surface of wall‐rock matrices; (5) adsorption of ore‐forming materials within the wall‐rock matrices; (6) reduction of the concentrations of solutes due to the chemical reactions between ore fluids and wall‐rock matrices and the precipitation of ore‐forming materials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]