The role of a transcrustal shear zone in orogenic gold mineralization at the Ajjanahalli mine, Dharwar Craton, South India

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 743-759

  Kolb, Jochen ^a   Hellmann, André ^a   Rogers, Amanda ^a   Sindern, Sven ^a,b   Vennemann, Torsten ^c   Böttcher, Michael E ^d   Meyer, F Michael ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDED IRON FORMATION; OROGENIC GOLD MINERALIZATION; TRANSCRUSTAL SHEAR ZONE;

INFILTRATION; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETITE; ROCKS; STRONTIUM; TECTONICS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

GOLD; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENIC BELT; SHEAR ZONE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

AJJANAHALLI MINE; ASIA; DHARWAR CRATON; EURASIA; INDIA; KARNATAKA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 4644239039     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.4.743     Document Type: Article

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