Fluid chemistry, structural setting, and emplacement history of the Rosario Cu-Mo porphyry and Cu-Ag-Au epithermal veins, Collahuasi district, northern Chile

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 835-862

  Masterman, Glenton J ^a,b   Cooke, David R ^a   Berry, Ron F ^a   Walshe, John L ^c   Lee, Andrew W ^b,d   Clark, Alan H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Bolnisi Gold NL ^*  (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SILVER DEPOSITS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

EPITHERMAL VEINS; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; PRESSURE-DEPTH ESTIMATES;

PETROLOGY;

COPPER; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; MOLYBDENUM; PORPHYRY; SILVER;

EID: 33344457429     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.5.835     Document Type: Article

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