Controls on skarn mineralization and alteration at the Cadia deposits, New South Wales, Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 761-788

  Forster, David B ^a   Seccombe, Philip K ^a   Phillips, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADIA DEPOSITS; SKARN MINERALIZATION;

GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; MAGNETITE; MINERALOGY; SANDSTONE; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; SKARN; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CADIA MINE; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 4644360532     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.4.761     Document Type: Article

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