Petrographic and geochemical evidence for hydrothermal evolution of the North Deposit, Mt Tom Price, Western Australia

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 766-783

  Thorne, Warren Spencer ^a   Hagemann, Steffen Gerd ^a   Barley, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluid inclusion; Hematite ore; Iron mineralisation; Two stage hydrothermal supergene model

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; ORE DEPOSIT; PETROGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MOUNT TOM PRICE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 11044227797     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-004-0444-x     Document Type: Article

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