The Mount Gibson banded iron formation-hosted magnetite deposit: Two distinct processes for the origin of high-grade iron ore

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 651-666

  Lascelles, Desmond F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; IRON DEPOSITS; LEACHING; MAGNETITE; OXIDATION; PETROLOGY; QUARTZ; WEATHERING;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; DIAGENESIS; HYPOGENE REPLACEMENT; ISOCLINAL FOLDING; MICROCRYSTALLINE QUARTZ; SUPERGENE LEACHING;

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; CHERT; GREENSTONE BELT; HEMATITE; IRON ORE; LEACHING; MAGNETITE; QUARTZ;

EID: 33750221038     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.3.651     Document Type: Article

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