Geologic setting, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the early tertiary Au-Rich volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit of La Plata, Western Cordillera, Ecuador

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 161-183

  Chiaradia, Massimo ^a   Tripodi, D ^a   Fontbote L ^a   Reza, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Sultana del Condor Minera SA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEFORMATION; GOLD DEPOSITS; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; PYRITES; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

QUARTZ-PYRITE-SERICITE ASSEMBLAGE; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDE (VHMS) DEPOSITS;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

BRECCIA; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; FOOTWALL; GEOCHEMISTRY; HANGING WALL; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MINERALOGY; MIXING; ORE DEPOSIT; SEAWATER; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN PARTITIONING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ANDES; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [ANDES]; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 44849110416     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.1.161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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