SHRIMP U-Pb geochronological constraints on archean volcanic-hosted massive sulfide and lode gold mineralization at Mount Gibson, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1354-1371

  Yeats, Christopher J ^a   Mcnaughton, Neal J ^a   Groves, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; GOLD; GREENSTONE BELT; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC HOSTED MASSIVE SULPHIDE;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, MOUNT GIBSON;

EID: 0030390985     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.91.8.1354     Document Type: Article

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