An overview of the geology in the Osikonmäki area, Rantasalmi, southeastern Finland: Especially as a promising environment for epigenetic gold mineralization

Special Paper of the Geological Survey of Finland

Volumn 25, Issue , 1998, Pages 7-18

  Kontoniemi, Olavi ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Gold ores; Intrusions; Metamorphic rocks; Metamorphism; Osikonm ki; Paleoproterozoic; Plutonic rocks; Proterozoic; Shear zones; Tectonics; Tonalite

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE;

FINLAND;

EID: 0032456934     PISSN: 07828535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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