Multistage Au-As-Sb mineralization and crustal-scale fluid evolution in the Kwekwe District, Midlands Greenstone Belt, Zimbabwe: A combined geochemical, mineralogical, stable isotope, and fluid inclusion study

Economic Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-378

  Buchholz, Peter ^a   Oberthür, Thomas ^a   Lüders, Volker ^b   Wilkinson, Jamie ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; MINERALOGY;

FLUID EVOLUTION; FLUID INCLUSION; MINERALIZATION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

GEOLOGY;

ANTIMONY; ARCHEAN; ARSENIC; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AFRICA; MIDLANDS [ZIMBABWE]; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

PFAFFIA GRANDIFLORA; PRIMULA;

EID: 35348880903     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.102.3.347     Document Type: Article

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