Petrology and geochemistry of sphalerite from the Cambrian VHMS deposits in the Rosebery-Hercules district, western Tasmania: Implications for gold mineralisation and Devonian metamorphic-metasomatic processes

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-118

  Zaw, Khin ^a   Large, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; DEVONIAN; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METAMORPHISM; METASOMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PETROLOGY; SPHALERITE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALIA; ROSEBERY; TASMANIA;

EID: 0003375631     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf01161624     Document Type: Article

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