Geology of the Hope Brook Mine, Newfoundland, Canada: a preserved late Proterozoic high-sulfidation epithermal gold deposit and its implications for exploration

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 405-436

  Dubé, Benôit ^a   Dunning, Greg ^b   Lauzière, Kathleen ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD DEPOSIT; MINERAL EXPLORATION;

CANADA, NEWFOUNDLAND, HOPE BROOK MINE;

EID: 0031664614     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.4.405     Document Type: Article

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