Hydrothermal alteration of granitoid rocks and gneisses in the Dubrava Sb-Au deposit, Western Carpathians

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 377-387

  Orvošová, Monika ^a   Majzlan, Juraj ^b,c   Chovan, Martin ^b  

^a The Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorite; Granitoids; Hydrothermal alteration; Illite; Muscovite; Nizke Tatry Mts.

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; GNEISS; GOLD; GRANITOID; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 17044457550     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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