The role of saline fluids base-metal and gold mineralization at the Cobalt Hill prospect northeast of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Ontario: A fluid-inclusion and mineralogical study

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1541-1562

  Schandl, Eva S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base metals; Cobalt Hill prospect; Fluid inclusions; Gold saline fluids; Lake Wanapitei; Ontario

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; PRESSURE EFFECTS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

GOLD MINERALIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; QUARTZ VEINS;

MINERALOGY;

FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; QUARTZ VEIN;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEX; SUDBURY STRUCTURE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12344292674     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.42.5.1541     Document Type: Article

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