Magmatic fluids in the Breccia-hosted epithermal Au-Ag deposit of Roşia Montanǎ, Romania

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 923-954

  Wallier, Stefan ^a,b   Rey, Roger ^a   Kouzmanov, Kalin ^a,c   Pettke, Thomas ^a,d   Heinrich, Christoph A ^a,e   Leary, Stephen ^f   O'Connor, Gary ^g   Tǎmaş, Cǎlin G ^h   Vennemann, Torsten ⁱ   Ullrich, Thomas ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f RSG Global   (Australia)

^g Gabriel Resources Ltd   (Canada)

^h BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; SILVER DEPOSITS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

BRECCIA-HOSTED EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FLUID INCLUSIONS; MAGMATIC FLUIDS; MINERALIZATION; VOLCANICLASTIC MATERIAL;

MINERALOGY;

BRECCIA; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENY; SILVER; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847247975     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.5.923     Document Type: Article

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