Albitite and 'listvenite': new type of disseminated gold, deposit in the highly hydrothermalized Birimian greenstone belt of Burkina Faso;Albitite et 'listvenite': sites de concentration aurifere inedits dans les ceintures de roches vertes birimiennes fortement hydrothermalissees du Burkina Faso

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 563-571

  Béziat, Didier ^a   Bourges, François ^a   Debat, Pierre ^a   Lompo, Martin ^b   Tollon, Francis ^a   Zonou, Siaka ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^c IGR ^*  (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBITITE; BIRRIMIAN; GOLD; MICA; PROTEROZOIC;

BURKINA FASO;

EID: 0032445001     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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