The geochemistry of black shales from the Chuniespoort Group, Transvaal Sequence, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa

Economic Geology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-121

  Meyer, F M ^a,b   Robb, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CHUNIESPOORT GROUP; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; METALLOGENY; PRECAMBRIAN;

SOUTH AFRICA, TRANSVAAL;

EID: 0030449686     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.91.1.111     Document Type: Article

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