Mineral hosts for gold and trace metals in regolith at Boddington gold deposit and scuddles massive copper-zinc sulphide deposit, Western Australia: An LA-ICP-MS study

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-172

  Gleuher, Maïté Le ^a   Anand, Ravi A ^b   Eggleton, Richard Tony A ^a   Radford, Nigel ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NEWCREST MINING LIMITED   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interstratified clay minerals; LA ICP MS; Metals; Pathfinder elements; Vermiculite

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITS; DEPTH PROFILING; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; HEMATITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; KAOLINITE; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METALS; MINERALOGY; ROCKS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DEPOSITS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WEATHERING; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC SULFIDE;

COMPOSITIONAL DEPTH PROFILING; ELECTRON MICROPROBES; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; LA-ICP-MS; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (LA ICP MS); MINERALOGICAL PHASIS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; VERMICULITE;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANATASE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DETECTION METHOD; DILUTION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GOLD; HOST ROCK; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LASER METHOD; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; REGOLITH; RUTILE; SULFIDE GROUP; TRACE METAL; VERMICULITE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 44649186855     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/07-163     Document Type: Article

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