Geochemical effects of endoskarn formation in the Mazraeh Cu-Fe skarn deposit in northwestern Iran

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 307-315

  Karimzadeh Somarin, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cu Fe skarn; Endoskarn; Iran; Mazraeh

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CALCITE; CLAY ALTERATION; COPPER ALLOYS; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; GARNETS; GRADING; IRON ALLOYS; LIME; LIMESTONE; MAGNETITE; MARBLE; MICA; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; PYRITES; SILICON; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WALL ROCK; WEATHERING;

ENDOSKARN; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL SOLUTION; IRAN; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; MAZRAEH; MINERAL PRECIPITATION; SULPHIDE MINERALIZATION;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

COPPER; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; ORE DEPOSIT; SKARN;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

SIPROETA STELENES;

EID: 10244260404     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/04-209     Document Type: Article

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