Timing of Fracture Formation and Duration of Mineralization at the Hishikari Deposit, Southern Kyushu, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 395-404

  Sekine, Ryota ^a   Izawa, Eiji ^b   Watanabe, Koichiro ^b  

^a SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crosscutting relationship; Duration of mineralization; Fracture formation; Hishikari gold deposit; K Ar age; Pleistocene; Southern Kyushu

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FRACTURE INITIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; PLEISTOCENE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; THERMAL WATER; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

HISHIKARI MINE; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU;

EID: 0041328770     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2002.tb00149.x     Document Type: Article

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