Vegetation controls on the formation of gold anomalies in calcrete and other materials at the Barns Gold Prospect, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-266

  Lintern, Mel J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Calcrete; Exploration; Gold; OSL dating; Sr isotope; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FARM BUILDINGS; GOLD; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; VEGETATION;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL STUDIES; CALCRETES; EXPLORATION METHODS; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; OSL DATING; SR ISOTOPES;

SAND;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CALCRETE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUNE; EXPLORATION; GOLD; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EYRE PENINSULA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; MELALEUCA;

EID: 34547794173     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/07-139     Document Type: Article

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