Gold mineralization in Archean banded iron formation, Third Portage Lake area, Northwest Territories, Canada

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Armitage, A E ^a   James, R S ^b   Goff, S P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Government of Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; EPIGENETIC DEPOSIT; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, THIRD PORTAGE LAKE;

EID: 0030454324     PISSN: 09641823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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