Two stage model for the Muruntau (Uzbekistan) high grade ore structures based on characteristics of gold, host quartz and related fluids

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-80

  Graupner, Torsten ^a   Kempe, Ulf ^b   Klemd, Reiner ^a   Schüssler, Ullrich ^a   Spooner, Edward T C ^c   Götze, Jens ^b   Wolf, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluid evolution; Gold deposit; Gold microchemistry; Muruntau; Wall rock alteration

Indexed keywords

GOLD; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE-FORMING FLUID; QUARTZ VEIN; WALL ROCK;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MURUNTAU MINE; NAVOI; UZBEKISTAN; WEST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 13844275370     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2005/0181-0002     Document Type: Article

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