Endeavour copper-gold porphyry deposits, Northparkes, New South Wales: Intrusive history and fluid evolution

Economic Geology

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1607-1636

  Lickfold, Vanessa ^a   Cooke, David R ^a   Smith, Stuart G ^b   Ullrich, Thomas D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Northparkes Mines Australia   (Australia)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC TEXTURE; FLUID INCLUSION; MICROTHERMOMETRIC ANALYSES; MINERALIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; COPPER DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ISOTOPES; PORPHYRINS; QUARTZ; SOLIDIFICATION; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOLOGY;

COPPER; EMPLACEMENT; GOLD; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATISM; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; NORTHPARKES MINE;

EID: 3042803169     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.98.8.1607     Document Type: Article

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