Ten rock samples with unidirectional solidification textures (USTs) from nine Asian and Australian porphyry and intrusion-related Au deposits and prospects were investigated in terms of mineralization sequences, textural and paragenetic relationships, melt and fluid inclusion inventory, cathodoluminescence, and trace elements of UST quartz. Despite general similar structural appearance of the investigated UST sequences, each U...

The giant gold deposit Muruntau in most works belongs to the “orogenic type”. However, in the description of the geology of the deposit, there is usually no information about the stages (deformation, metamorphism) and the role of regional processes in the formation of host and mineralized rocks of the deposit. Our fieldwork provides unique geological evidence and previously unpublished data that are not reported in any other p...