A review of gold mineralization styles in Finland

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1329-1353

  Eilu, Pasi ^a   Sorjonen Ward, Peter ^b   Nurmi, Pekka ^b   Niiranen, Tero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALIZATION;

DEFORMATION; GOLD; SULFIDE MINERALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

GOLD; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PRECAMBRIAN;

BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0742288005     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.7.1329     Document Type: Article

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