Hydrothermal origin for the 2 billion year old Mount Tom Price giant iron ore deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 784-789

  Barley, M E ^a   Pickard, A L ^a   Hagemann, S G ^a   Folkert, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; IRON; MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033389236     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050238     Document Type: Article

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