Structural evolution of the Björkdal Gold Deposit, Skellefte district, northern Sweden: Implications for Early Proterozoic Mesothermal Gold in the Late Stage of the Svecokarelian Orogen

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1291-1309

  Weihed, Pär ^a   Weihed, Jeanette Bergman ^b   Sorjonen Ward, Peter ^c  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATIC FLUIDS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; QUARTZ; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

GOLD; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

BALTIC SHIELD; BJORKDAL DEPSOIT; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKELLEFTE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0742288009     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.7.1291     Document Type: Article

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