摘要
REVIEWING the history of the geology of mineral deposits, we may find that in the first fifty years of thetwentieth century the magmatic-hydrothermal theory of ore deposition was the most prevalent, whichgave impetus to the development of the geology of mineral deposits. In the 1960s, the drilling of theSalton Sea geothermal field, California, the United States, and discovery and study of the Red Sea seafloor hot brines and large amounts of metal sulfides removed therefrom led to the rise of the brine theory ofmineral deposition, thus elucidating the origin of massive metal sulfides and promoted the discoveryand exploration of metal deposits. After the 1970s and the 1980s, through a study of the hydrothermal ore fluids of modern hotsprings. geologists came to realize that there exist low-salinity hydrothermal ore fluids other than
