The world-class Wallaby gold deposit, Laverton, Western Australia: An orogenic-style overprint on a magmatic-hydrothermal magnetite-calcite alteration pipe?

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 473-494

  Salier, Brock P ^a   Groves, David I ^a   McNaughton, Neal J ^a   Fletcher, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE-FORMING FLUID; OVERPRINTING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WALLABY DEPOSIT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 27344455134     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-004-0425-0     Document Type: Article

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