The interplay of groundwater and magmatic fluids in the formation of the cassiterite-sulfide deposits of western Tasmania

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 3-6 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 367-387

  Walshe, John L ^a   Halley, Scott W ^b   Anderson, John A ^c   Harrold, Brian P ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Renison Goldfields Consolidated   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; GROUNDWATER; MAGMATIC FLUID; MINERALIZATION; TIN;

AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA;

EID: 0030445129     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-1368(95)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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