Mineralogy and geochemistry of El Dorado epithermal gold deposit, El Sauce district, central-northern Chile

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 92, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 341-360

  Carrillo Rosua J ^a,b,c   Morales Ruano, S ^a   Morata, D ^b   Boyce, A J ^c   Belmar, M ^b   Fallick, A E ^c   Fenoll Hach Ali P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDESITE; CALDERA; CRETACEOUS; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALOGY; PYRITE; QUARTZ VEIN; SULFIDE;

CHILE;

EID: 40949101405     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-007-0203-7     Document Type: Article

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