The Niassa Gold Belt, northern Mozambique - A segment of a continental-scale Pan-African gold-bearing structure?

Journal of African Earth Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 45-58

  Bjerkgard, T ^a   Stein, H J ^a,b   Bingen, B ^a   Henderson, I H C ^a   Sandstad, J S ^a   Moniz, A ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Direcção Nacional de Geologica ^*  (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Gold; Mozambique; Pan African; Quartz vein; Re Os

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MAGMATISM; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZ VEIN; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE; NIASSA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 57649224059     PISSN: 08995362     EISSN: 1464343X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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