Characteristics of gold mineralization at the Ciurug vein, Pongkor gold-silver deposit, West Java, Indonesia

Resource Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-238

  Syafrizal, ^a,b   Imai, Akira ^a   Motomura, Yoshinobu ^a   Watanabe, Koichiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BANDUNG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Alteration; Bornite; Ciurug vein; Epithermal; Gold mineralization; Indonesia; Pongkor; West Java

Indexed keywords

CHALCOPYRITE; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; PYRITE; SILTSTONE; SILVER; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

INDONESIA; JAKARTA; PONGKOR MINE; WEST JAVA;

EID: 27744602489     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2005.tb00244.x     Document Type: Article

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