An overview on the origin of adakites/adakitic rocks and related porphyry Cu-Au mineralization, Northern Luzon, Philippines

The Philippine island arc is famous for the widely developed large porphyry and epithermal Cu-Au deposits and associated Cenozoic adakites/adakitic rocks. Northern Luzon is one of the most Cu-Au enriched areas in the Philippines, which develops Late-Oligocene to Pleistocene porphyry and epithermal Cu-Au deposits in the Central Cordillera Range and southernmost of Cagayan Valley Basin. In this paper, Cenozoic magmatic events and geological...