Age and style of epithermal gold mineralization in the Minamikayabe area, southwestern Hokkaido

Resource Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 317-326

  Watanabe, Yasushi ^a   Aoki, Masahiro ^a   Nakajima, Nobuhisa ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epithermal gold mineralization; High sulfidation; Hokkaido; K Ar age; Late Miocene; Low sulfidation; Minamikayabe; Pliocene; Subduction mode

Indexed keywords

ADULARIA; ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; PORPHYRY; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; QUARTZ VEIN; SULFIDE;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 21744452935     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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