High REE and Y concentrations in Co-Cu-Au ores of the Blackbird district, Idaho

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-280

  Slack, John F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERALOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC AGE; STRATA-BOUND DEPOSITS; STRATA-BOUND ORE;

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY;

COBALT; COPPER; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT;

BLACKBIRD; IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 33749390288     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.2.275     Document Type: Article

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