Timing and duration of high-temperature gold mineralization and spatially associated granitoid magmatism at Chalice, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1123-1144

  Bucci, Louis A ^a,b,c   McNaughton, Neal J ^a   Fletcher, Ian R ^a   Groves, David I ^a   Kositcin, Natalie ^a   Stein, Holly J ^d   Hagemann, Steffen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SRK CONSULTING   (South Africa)

^c Colorado State University ^*  (Australia)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; DATA ACQUISITION; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; LEVEES; LOCATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ORES; QUARTZ; VEGETATION; ZIRCON;

MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; ROCK SEQUENCE; TITANITE;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

CRATON; GOLD; GRANITOID; MAGMATISM; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 12344299442     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.6.1123     Document Type: Article

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