“…Some of the data and interpretations discussed in previous chapters of this book can be used to define the most prospective igneous belts in regional-scale target generation and the exploration for world-class gold and copper-gold deposits, since many of these deposits are spatially associated with, or hosted by, potassic igneous rocks (Mutschler et al 1985;Müller and Groves 1993;Müller 2002;Sillitoe 2002;Bi et al 2004;Hu et al 2004Hu et al , 2015Kouzmanov et al 2009;Soloviev and Krivoschenkov 2011;Fornadel et al 2012;Hronski et al 2012;Lehmann et al 2013;Lu et al 2013a;Soloviev et al 2013;Witt et al 2014;Bissig and Cooke 2014;Chai et al 2014;Maghsoudi et al 2014;Soloviev 2014aSoloviev , b, 2015Xu et al 2014Xu et al , 2015Zhao et al 2014a, b;Heidari et al 2015;Jamali and Mehrabi 2015;Shafaroudi et al 2015). The points listed below may be particularly useful.…”