The Gandy and Abolhassani epithermal prospects in the Alborz magmatic arc, Semnan province, Northern Iran

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 691-712

  Shamanian, Gholam Hossein ^a   Hedenquist, Jeffrey W ^b   Hattori, Kéiko H ^b   Hassanzadeh, Jamshid ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOLHASSANI EPITHERMAL PROSPECTS; ALBORZ MAGMATIC ARC; FLUID INCLUSION;

CALCITE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; QUARTZ; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BASE METAL; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; ISLAND ARC; ORE DEPOSIT; PRECIOUS METAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; SEMNAN;

EID: 4644222984     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.4.691     Document Type: Article

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