Special paper: Major Gold Deposits and belts of the North and South American Cordillera: Distribution, tectonomagmatic settings, and metallogenic considerations

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 663-687

  Sillitoe, Richard H ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COPPER; GOLD; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALKALINE ROCKS; CLOSE PROXIMITIES; EPITHERMAL; EPITHERMAL GOLD DEPOSITS; EXPLORATION PROGRAMS; GENETIC LINKS; GENETIC TYPES; GOLD CONCENTRATIONS; GOLD MINERALIZATIONS; GREEN FIELDS; MAGMATISM; MANTLE WEDGES; OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS; OROGENIC GOLDS; PRECONCENTRATIONS; REDOX CONDITIONS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SPECIAL PAPERS; SULFIDATION; TEMPORAL ASSOCIATIONS; TRANSPRESSION; UNITED STATES; UPPER CRUSTS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57749121334     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.4.663     Document Type: Article

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