Ore petrology, chemistry, and timing of electrum in the Archean hypozonal Transvaal lode gold deposit, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 271-291

  Hagemann, Steffen G ^a   Brown, Philip E ^b   Ridley, John ^a,c   Stern, Peter ^b   Fournelle, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CHRONOLOGY; GOLD DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; ORE PETROLOGY;

AUSTRALIA, WEST AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031694205     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.3.271     Document Type: Article

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