Modeling of gold scavenging by bismuth melts coexisting with hydrothermal fluids

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 815-818

  Tooth, Blake ^a   Brugger, Joël ^a,b   Ciobanu, Cristiana ^a,b   Liu, Weihua ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bismuth; Gold; Hydrothermal fluids; Melts; Numerical modeling; Ore deposits; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS FLUIDS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; COEXISTING; ECONOMIC; GOLD CONCENTRATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; MELT SYSTEMS; MELTS; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; POLYMETALLIC; THERMODYNAMIC MODELING; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDES;

BISMUTH; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUIDS; GOLD; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORE DEPOSITS; ORE TREATMENT; ORES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM; SOLUTIONS; SULFUR; THERMODYNAMICS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BISMUTH; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORE DEPOSIT; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 54949131760     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25093A.1     Document Type: Article

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