Structural setting, hydrothermal alteration, and gold mineralisation at the Archaean syenite-hosted Jupiter deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 402-421

  Duuring, P ^a   Hagemann, S G ^a   Groves, D I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THOLEIITIC BASALT;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 0034209989     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050252     Document Type: Article

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