Critical assessment of geochronological data from the Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil: Implications for metallogeny and tectonic evolution

The Carajás Domain in the Amazonian Craton, Brazil, displays remarkable metallogenetic diversity, containing iron-oxide-copper–gold (IOCG), Cu-Au, Mn, Fe, Ni-Co, PGE-Cr and Au-PGE mineral systems. It consists of Mesoarchean (2.83–3.08 Ga) basement granitoids and gneisses overlain by the ca. 2.73–2.76 Ga rift related meta-volcanosedimentary units of the Neoarchean Carajás Basin. Coeval ca. 2.76 mafic–ultramafic complexes host nickel–cobalt...