Syn-peak metamorphic gold mineralization in the amphibolitefacies, gabbro-hosted Three Mile Hill deposit, Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia: A high-temperature analogue of mesothermal gabbro-hosted gold deposits

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 105, Issue SEPT/DEC, 1996, Pages

  Knight, J T ^a   Ridley, J R ^b   Groves, D I ^c   McCall, C ^d  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Mt McClure Gold Mine   (Australia)

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