Distribution of gold in tin-rich samples from the Corvo orebody, Portugal

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1347-1360

  Cabri, Louis J ^a   Gaspar, Orlando C ^b   Lastra, Rolando ^a   McMahon, Greg ^c  

^a Natural Resources Canada   (Canada)

^b Instituto Geologico e Mineiro   (Portugal)

^c CANMET MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenopyrite; Cassiterite; Corvo; Iberian Pyrite Belt; Image analyses; Invisible gold; Metallogeny; Metallurgy; Neves Corvo; Ore mineralogy; Portugal; Pyrite; Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS); Volcanogenic massive sulfide

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; ORE BODY; TIN;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 0032455849     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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