Tellurides from Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: A new occurrence of nagyágite

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 249-270

  Sung, Y H ^a,b   Ciobanu, C L ^b,c   Pring, A ^b,c   Brugger J ^b,c   Skinner, W ^b,c   Cook, N J ^d   Nugus, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e AngloGold Ashanti Limited Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GOLD; MAGMATISM; ORE DEPOSIT; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SULFIDE GROUP; TELLURIDE;

AUSTRALIA; SUNRISE DAM MINE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 35748945757     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-007-0199-z     Document Type: Article

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