Volcanic red-bed copper mineralisation related to submarine basalt alteration, Mont Alexandre, Quebec Appalachians, Canada

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 901-912

  Cabral, Alexandre Raphael ^a,b   Beaudoin, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Canada; Mont Alexandre; Native copper; Quebec Appalachians; Spilitisation; Volcanic red beds

Indexed keywords

BASALT; COPPER; FLUID INCLUSION; MALACHITE; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; PLAGIOCLASE; RED BED; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; SULFIDE;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 35448929452     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-007-0141-7     Document Type: Article

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