Post-deformation, sulphide-quartz vein hosted gold ore in the footwall alteration zone of the palaeoproterozoic längdal vhms deposit, skellefte district, Northern Sweden

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Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 201-210

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

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d Boliden AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gold; L ngdal; Northern sweden; Palaeoproterozoic; Remobilization; Skellefte district; Sulphide quartz veins; Vhms deposit

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; PROTEROZOIC; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKELLEFTE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0742305552     PISSN: 11035897     EISSN: 20000863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11035890201244201     Document Type: Article

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