'Extreme boiling' model for variable salinity of the Hokko low-sulfidation epithermal Au prospect, southwestern Hokkaido, Japan

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 568-578

  Scott, A M ^a   Watanabe, Y ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; SALINITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032468190     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050173     Document Type: Article

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