Gold in the weathering crust at the Suzdal' deposit (Kazakhstan)

Russian Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-187

  Kalinin, Yu A ^a   Kovalev, K R ^a   Naumov, E A ^a   Kirillov, M V ^a  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eastern Kazakhstan; Suzdal' gold deposit; typomorphic features of hypergene gold; weathering crust

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; DISSOLUTION; GOLD; GRANULOMETRY; ORE DEPOSIT; WEATHERING;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 60249100016     PISSN: 10687971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rgg.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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