Origin and evolution of the greisenizing fluid at the East Kemptville tin deposit, Nova Scotia, Canada

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1026-1051

  Halter, Werner E ^a,c   Williams Jones, Anthony E ^a   Kontak, Daniel J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREISEN; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALIZATION; TIN;

CANADA;

EID: 0032461142     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.7.1026     Document Type: Article

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