Magmatic vapor contraction and the transport of gold from the porphyry environment to epithermal ore deposits

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 761-764

  Heinrich, Christoph A ^a,b   Driesner, Thomas ^a   Stefánsson, Andri ^a   Seward, Terry M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brine; Epithermal; Gold solubility; Magmatic deposits; Porphyry; Thermodynamic modeling; Vapor

Indexed keywords

FLUID-INCLUSION ANALYSES; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS; MAGMATIC VAPOR CONTRACTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGY; ORES; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPORS;

GOLD;

ELEMENT MOBILITY; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY;

EID: 4744344725     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20629.1     Document Type: Article

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