The rhyolite-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide district of Cuale, Guerrero terrane, west-central Mexico: Silver-rich, base metal mineralization emplaced in a shallow marine continental margin setting

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-159

  Bissig, Thomas ^a,b   Mortensen, James K ^a   Tosdal, Richard M ^a   Hall, Brian V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^c International Croesus Ventures Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE MINERALS; MINERALOGY; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR DEPOSITS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CHONDRITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; SERICITE; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS;

SULFIDE MINERALS;

CHLORITE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EMPLACEMENT; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; PARTIAL MELTING; QUARTZ; RHYOLITE; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

GUERRERO; JALISCO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO VALLARTA; ZIHUATANEJO;

EID: 44849104868     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.1.141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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