Silver minerals and paragenesis in the Kangjiawan Pb-Zn-Ag-Au deposit of the Shuikoushan mineral district, Hunan Province, China

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-22

  Zeng, Nanshi ^a   Izawa, Eiji ^a   Motomura, Yoshinobu ^a   Lai, Lairen ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Res Inst Geol for Mineral Rsrc   (China)

Author keywords

China; Freibergite; Hunan Province; Kangjiawan Pb Zn Ag Au deposit; Pearceite; Polybasite arsenpolybasite; Pyrargyri te proustite; Silver minerals; Tetrahedrite

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; ORE DEPOSIT; PARAGENESIS; SILVER;

CHINA; HUNAN PROVINCE; KANGJIAWAN;

EID: 0034047041     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.38.1.11     Document Type: Article

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