On the size and spacing of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits within a district with application to the Matagami district, Quebec

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1395-1409

  Carr, Patrick M ^a,c   Cathles III, Lawrence M ^a   Barrie, C Tucker ^b  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b CT Barrie and Associates   (Canada)

^c Xstrata   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT THICKNESS; CONVECTION CELLS; DISCHARGE SITES; DISCRETE LOCATIONS; ORE-BODIES; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; RECTANGULAR GEOMETRIES; ROCK PERMEABILITIES; SEA FLOORS; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDES; ZINC TRANSPORTS;

CAPILLARITY; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORE DEPOSITS; ORES; SEAWATER; SMELTING; VOLCANOES; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

EXTRACTION;

MASSIVE SULFIDE; NUMERICAL METHOD; ORE BODY; PERMEABILITY; SILL; SPACING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT; ZINC;

CANADA; MATAGAMI; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 61849097677     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.7.1395     Document Type: Article

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