The role of greisenization in cassiterite precipitation at the East Kemptville tin deposit, Nova Scotia

Economic Geology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 368-385

  Halter, Werner E ^a   Williams Jones, Anthony E ^a   Kontak, Daniel J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERATION; CASSITERITE; FLUID/ROCK INTERACTION; GREISENIZATION; TIN;

CANADA, NOVA SCOTIA, EAST KEMPTVILLE;

EID: 0030485647     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.91.2.368     Document Type: Article

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