Pueblo Viejo high-sulfidation epithermal gold-silver deposit, Dominican Republic: A new model of formation beneath barren limestone cover

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1427-1435

  Sillitoe, Richard H ^a   Hall, David J ^b   Redwood, Stewart D ^c   Waddell, Alistair H ^d  

^a GoldQuest Mining Corp ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b GoldQuest Mining Corp   (Canada)

^c World Trade Center   (Panama)

^d GoldQuest Mining Corp   (Dominican Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD DEPOSITS; HEAT LOSSES; HEMATITE; LIMESTONE; MAGNETITE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SILVER DEPOSITS;

GOLD-SILVER DEPOSIT; HIGH-SULFIDATION DEPOSITS; SILICIFICATION; VOLCANO-SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

MINERALOGY;

ALUNITE; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; FLUID FLOW; GOLD; HEMATITE; LIMESTONE; MAGNETITE; METALLOGENESIS; ORE BODY; PYROPHYLLITE; QUARTZ; RECHARGE; SILICIFICATION; SILVER; TERTIARY;

ANDES; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREATER ANTILLES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249694722     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.7.1427     Document Type: Article

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