Late Archean and Early Proterozoic gold-tungsten mineralization in the Zimbabwe Archean craton: Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotope constraints

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-22

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

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS; RUBIDIUM ALLOYS; SAMARIUM ALLOYS; STRONTIUM ALLOYS; TUNGSTATE MINERALS; TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS; TUNGSTEN MINES; GOLD DEPOSITS;

DISCRETE PHASIS; GOLD BEARINGS; GOLD DEPOSITION; GOLD MINERALIZATION; GREENSTONE BELTS; HIGH-STRAIN ZONES; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; GRANODIORITE; GREAT DYKES; PROTEROZOIC; SM-ND ISOTOPE; TONALITE;

GOLD DEPOSITS; NEODYMIUM ALLOYS;

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; TUNGSTEN; ARCHAEAN; MAGMATISM; SAMARIUM/NEODYMIUM DATING;

ZIMBABWE; MIDLANDS GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 0029777001     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0019:LAAEPG>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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