Formation of the Auriferous and Barren North Dipper veins in the Sigma Mine, Val d'Or, Canada: Constraints from structural, mineralogical, fluid inclusion, and isotopic data

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 607-631

  Olivo, Gema Ribeiro ^a   Chang, Felicia ^a   Kyser, T Kurtis ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; GOLD MINES; INCLUSIONS; LASER ABLATION; LEACHING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

AURIFEROUS AQUEOUS-CARBONIC FLUIDS; CRUSH LEACHING; FLUID INCLUSION; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID CIRCULATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED MASS SPECTROMETRY; VEIN SYSTEM;

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY;

ARCHEAN; FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD MINE; GREENSTONE BELT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; VAL D'OR;

EID: 33750200844     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.3.607     Document Type: Article

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