Genesis of high-grade iron ores of the Archean Iron Ore Group around Noamundi, India

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 365-386

  Beukes, Nicolas J ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Joydip ^a,b   Gutzmer, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EROSION; HEMATITE; IRON; IRON ORE TREATMENT; IRON ORES; LANDFORMS; LEACHING; MINERALS; ORE DEPOSITS; ORE TREATMENT; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; WEATHERING;

BANDED-IRON FORMATION (BIF); CENOZOIC; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; GOETHITE (GT); HEMATITE ORES; HIGH-GRADE HEMATITE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; LAND SURFACES; LATERITIC SOILS; METEORIC WATERS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORE-BODIES; PALEOARCHEAN; PROTOLITH; SUPERGENE ALTERATION; WET AND DRY SEASONS;

ORES;

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; GREENSTONE BELT; HEMATITE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IRON ORE; ORE BODY; PARAGENESIS; PETROGENESIS; PROTOLITH; SUPERGENE PROCESS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; JHARKHAND; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 47849108949     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.2.365     Document Type: Article

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