Variations in chemical composition of clay minerals and magnetic susceptibility of hydrothermally altered rocks in the Hishikari epithermal gold deposit, SW Kyushu, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-24

  Murakami, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorite; Epithermal gold deposit; Hishikari; Hydrothermal alteration; Illite; Magnetic susceptibility

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLAY MINERAL; CRETACEOUS; GEOTHERMOMETRY; HEMATITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ILLITE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PLAGIOCLASE; PYRITE; ROCK BLOCK; SANDSTONE; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

HISHIKARI MINE; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU;

EID: 38949140165     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2007.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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