Significance for gold exploration of structural styles of auriferous deposits in the Archaean Bulawayo-Bubi greenstone belt of Zimbabwe

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

Volumn 105, Issue JAN-APR, 1996, Pages

  Pitfield, P E J ^a   Campbell, S D G ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; GOLD; GREENSTONE BELT; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONICS;

ZIMBABWE, BULAWAYO-BUBI GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 0029730501     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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