Fe sulfide formation due to seawater-gas-sediment interaction in a shallow-water hydrothermal system at Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 281-288

  Pichler, Thomas ^a   Giggenbach, Werner F ^b   McInnes, Brent I A ^c   Buhl, Dieter ^d   Duck, Brett ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e Lihir Mining Company   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; IRON SULFIDE; METALLOGENESIS; SEAWATER;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0032809076     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.2.281     Document Type: Article

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