Rock-buffering of auriferous fluids in altered rocks associated with the Golden Mile-style mineralization, Kalgoorlie gold field, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 805-818

  Evans, Katy A ^a,b   Phillips, G N ^c   Powell, R ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE MINERALS; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; ROCK MECHANICS; SULFUR DEPOSITS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AURIFEROUS FLUIDS; FLUID-ROCK REACTION; MAFIC ROCKS; MINERALIZATION; ROCK-BUFFERING;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

GOLD; HEMATITE; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGNETITE; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE-FORMING FLUID; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WALL ROCK;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33751561426     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.4.805     Document Type: Article

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