Compositional variation in Hg-Ag-rich tetrahedrite from the polymetallic Eskay Creek deposit, British Columbia, Canada

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-292

  Grammatikopoulos, Tassos A ^a   Roth, Tina ^b   Valeyev, Oleg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION   (Canada)

^c Lakefield Research Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eskay Creek; Geological and metallurgical implications; Hg Ag tetrahedrite

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; TETRAHEDRITE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22444451278     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2005/0025     Document Type: Article

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