Recognition of the hydrothermal feeder to the structurally inverted, giant broken hill deposit, new South Wales, Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1389-1394

  Groves, Iain M ^a   Groves, David I ^b   Bierlein, Frank P ^b   Broome, Jared ^c   Penhall, John ^d  

^a Insight Geobgy   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Principal Mettalurgist   (Australia)

^d Perilya Broken Hill Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROKEN HILLS; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; FAULT ZONES; GENETIC MODELS; GRANULITE FACIES; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSIONS; METAMORPHIC GRADES; MULTIPHASE DEFORMATIONS; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDES; REMOBILIZATION; SYNSEDIMENTARY; TECTONIC MODELS; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDES;

CALCIUM; FEEDING; IRON ORES; LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS; LENSES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MINERALOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILVER; SILVER DEPOSITS; SULFIDE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

ZINC;

CONTINENTAL DRIFT; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FAULT ZONE; GAHNITE; GRANULITE FACIES; HILL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METAMORPHISM; ORE BODY; PYRRHOTITE; QUARTZ; REMOBILIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BROKEN HILL; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 61849115077     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.7.1389     Document Type: Article

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