Late orogenic alteration in the wall rocks of the Pegmont Pb-Zn deposit, Cloncurry district, Queensland, Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1180-1189

  Williams, Patrick J ^a   James Pendergast, W ^a,b   Dong, Guoyi ^a,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Normandy Anglo Asian Pte Ltd   (Indonesia)

^c Great Central Mines   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LEAD; METASOMATISM; OROGENY; SILVER; ZINC;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032436852     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.8.1180     Document Type: Article

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