New 40Ar/39Ar alunite ages from the Colquijirca district, Peru: Evidence of a long period of magmatic SO2 degassing during formation of epithermal Au-Ag and Cordilleran polymetallic ores

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 777-789

  Bendezú, Ronner ^a,b   Page, Laurence ^c   Spikings, Richard ^a   Pecskay, Zoltan ^d   Fontboté, Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Sociedad Minera El Brocal S A A   (Peru)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Alunite; Colquijirca; Cordilleran; Epithermal; High sulfidation; Peru

Indexed keywords

ALUNITE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEGASSING; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; MIOCENE;

COLQUIJIRCA; PASCO; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 51049123609     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-008-0195-1     Document Type: Article

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