Association of Electrum and Calcite and Its Significance to the Genesis of the Hishikari Gold Deposits, Southern Kyushu, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 381-394

  Imai, Akira ^a   Uto, Tadakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcite; Carbon isotope; Electrum; Epithermal gold deposit; Fluid inclusion; Hishikari mine; Oxygen isotope; Quartz; Replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULARIA; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FLUID INCLUSION; GANGUE; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

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

EID: 0041328771     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2002.tb00148.x     Document Type: Article

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