Telluride mineralogy of the Golden Mile deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1503-1524

  Shackleton, Jill M ^a   Spry, Paul G ^a   Bateman, Roger ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Gold deposit; Golden Mile; Kalgoorlie; Mineral zonation; Paragenetic sequence; Tellurides

Indexed keywords

GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; TELLURIUM DEPOSITS;

MINERALIZATION; TELLURIDES;

MINERALOGY;

GOLD; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; PARAGENESIS; TELLURIDE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1842814011     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.41.6.1503     Document Type: Article

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