Intrusion-Related Vein Gold Deposits: Types, Tectono-Magmatic Settings and Difficulties of Distinction from Orogenic Gold Deposits

Resource Geology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 237-250

  Sillitoe, Richard H ^a   Thompson, John F H ^b  

^a Teck Corporation ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Teck Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Erogenic gold; Gold deposits; Intrusions; Magma type; Mesothermal gold; Tectonic setting

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GOLD; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LAYERED INTRUSION; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENIC BELT; TECTONIC SETTING; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

EID: 0032251721     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.1998.tb00021.x     Document Type: Article

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