Granite-hosted gold mineralization in the Midlands greenstone belt: a new type of low-grade gold deposit in Zimbabwe

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 437-460

  Buchholz, P ^a   Herzig, P ^a   Friedrich, G ^b   Frei, R ^c  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; GREENSTONE BELT; MINERALIZATION;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031667859     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050162     Document Type: Article

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