The Hemlo Gold Deposit, Ontario: An example of melting and mobilization of a precious metal-sulfosalt assemblage during amphibolite facies metamorphism amd deformation

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1063-1084

  Tomkins, Andrew G ^a   Pattison, David R M ^a   Zaleski, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORE MINERALS; ORE MOBILIZATION; PREMETAMORPHIC MINERALIZATION;

COMPACTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; MELTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALOGY; ORE ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

SULFIDE MINERALS;

AMPHIBOLITE; GOLD; METALLOGENESIS; METAMORPHISM; ORE DEPOSIT; PARTIAL MELTING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12344252859     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.6.1063     Document Type: Article

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