Archean gold mineralization in an intrusion-related, geochemically zoned district-scale alteration system in the Carosue basin, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 445-454

  Witt, Walter K ^a,b   Hammond, David P ^a  

^a Sons of Gwalia Ltd   (Australia)

^b The Walter Witt Experience   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CARBONATION; COPPER; DAMS; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; FELDSPAR DEPOSITS; GOLD; HEMATITE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; IRON ORES; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MOLYBDENUM; OXIDE MINERALS; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILVER; ZINC;

ALTERATION ZONES; ARSENOPYRITE (FEASS); CENTRAL ZONE (CZ); GOLD MINERALIZATIONS; HOST ROCKS; HYDRO THERMAL SYSTEMS; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; INTENSE (CO); MAGMATIC FLUIDS; MESOTHERMAL; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; OROGENIC GOLD; SUBVOLCANIC INTRUSIONS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA (WA);

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ARCHEAN; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAROSUE BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 47849133423     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.2.445     Document Type: Article

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