Magma sources and gold mineralisation in the Mount Leyshon and Tuckers Igneous Complexes, Queensland, Australia: U-Pb and Hf isotope evidence

Lithos

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 281-307

  Murgulov, Valeria ^a   O'Reilly, Suzanne Y ^a   Griffin, William L ^a   Blevin, Phillip L ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Geological Survey of New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Minerals Hunter Regional Mail Centre ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Crustal reservoirs; Gold mineralisation sources; Granite genesis; Granitic magma sources; Zircon geochronology; Zircon Hf isotopes

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; TRACE ELEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 40149102262     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.07.014     Document Type: Article

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