Victoria Carbonate-Base Metal Gold Deposit and Its Significance in the Mankayan Mineral District, Luzon, Philippines

Resource Geology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-328

  Sajona, Fernando G ^c   Izawa, Eiji ^a   Motomura, Yoshinobu ^a   Imai, Akira ^b   Sakakibara, Hiroyuki ^a   Watanabe, Koichiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Mines and Geosciences Bureau Philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Base metal; Carbonate; Epithermal; Gold; Lepanto; Luzon; Mankayan; Philippines; Victoria deposit

Indexed keywords

COPPER; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FLOW PATTERN; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; PORPHYRY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

LUZON; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0042885719     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2002.tb00142.x     Document Type: Article

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