Hydrothermal synthesis of gold grains with apparent five-fold symmetry

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Gammons, Christopher H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crystallography; Experimental; Geochemistry; Gold; Hydrothermal; Multiply twinned particles; Ore deposits; Pentagonal morphology

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FIVE FOLD SYMMETRY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0029752749     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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