Invisible gold and tellurium in arsenic-rich pyrite from the emperor gold deposit, Fiji: Implications for gold distribution and deposition

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 479-493

  Pals, David W ^a   Spry, Paul G ^a   Chryssoulis, Stephen ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS (EPMA);

DEPOSITS; GOLD; INCLUSIONS; PYRITES; TELLURIUM;

GEOLOGY;

GOLD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; PYRITE; TELLURIUM;

FIJI;

EID: 0141856318     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.3.479     Document Type: Article

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