A genetic model for the HYC deposit, Australia: Based on regional sedimentology, geochemistry, and sulfide-sediment relationships

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1345-1368

  Large, Ross R ^a   Bull, Stuart W ^a   Cooke, David R ^a   Mcgoldrick, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; LEAD; METALLOGENESIS; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT; TECTONICS; ZINC;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032409736     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.8.1345     Document Type: Article

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