Hydrothermal Alteration and Cu-Au Mineralization at Nena High Sulfidation-type Deposit, Frieda River, Papua New Guinea

Resource Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 301-313

  Espi, Joseph Onglo ^a   Kajiwara, Yoshimichi ^a   Hawkins, Mike A ^b   Bainbridge, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Highlands Pacific Limited   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Acidic fluids; Bladed barite; Bladed covellite; Enargite luzonite; Frieda River; Gold rich pyrite; HS Cu Au deposit; Nena; Silica alunite; Stibioluzonite; Vuggy silica; Zoned HS alteration

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; ALUNITE; BARITE; COPPER COMPOUND; ENTRAINMENT; FLUID COMPOSITION; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; METEORIC WATER; MINERALIZATION; SILICA;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0041883462     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2002.tb00141.x     Document Type: Article

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