Timing relationships and structural controls on the location of Au-Cu mineralization at the Boddington Gold Mine, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-270

  Allibone, Andrew H ^a   Windh, Jacqueline ^a   Etheridge, Michael A ^a   Burton, David ^b   Anderson, Gerard ^b   Edwards, Peter W ^b   Miller, Alan ^b   Graves, Cameron ^b   Fanning, C Mark ^c   Wysoczanski, Richard ^c  

^a SRK Australasia   (Australia)

^b Boddington Gold Mine   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; GOLD MINE; GREENSTONE BELT; MINERALIZATION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

AUSTRALIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, BODDINGTON MINE;

EID: 0031720041     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.3.245     Document Type: Article

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