Te and Se mineralogy of the high-sulfidation Kochbulak and Kairagach epithermal gold telluride deposits (Kurama Ridge, Middle Tien Shan, Uzbekistan)

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 187-207

  Plotinskaya, Olga Yu ^a   Kovalenker, V A ^a   Seltmann, R ^b   Stanley, C J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; SELENIUM; TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 33745460269     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-006-0130-z     Document Type: Article

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