Timing of interplay between hydrothermal and surface fluids in the Navan Zn + Pb orebody, Ireland: Evidence from metal distribution trends, mineral textures, and δ 34S analyses

Economic Geology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-91

  Blakeman, Robert J ^a   Ashton, John H ^b   Boyce, Adrian J ^c   Fallick, Anthony E ^c   Russell, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Outokumpu Tara Mines Ltd   (Ireland)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT GEOMETRIES; SURFACE FLUIDS;

BACTERIA; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; ORE SAMPLING; PETROGRAPHY; PYRITES; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR; TECTONICS; TEXTURES;

LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS;

CARBONIFEROUS; LEAD; METALLOGENESIS; MISSISSIPPIAN; ORE BODY; ORE-FORMING FLUID; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; ZINC;

IRELAND;

EID: 0036289693     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.97.1.73     Document Type: Article

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