The Chagai porphyry copper belt, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1583-1612

  Perelló, José ^a   Razique, Abdul ^b   Schloderer, John ^c   Asad Ur Rehman, ^b  

^a Antofagasta Minerals SA   (Chile)

^b House No 11   (Pakistan)

^c Albidon Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ANDESITES; CONVERGENT MARGINS; COPPER MINERALIZATIONS; EARLY MIOCENE; EPITHERMAL; EURASIA; FASTER RATES; GOLD MINERALIZATIONS; GRANODIORITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; ISLAND ARCS; LATE EOCENE; LATE MIOCENE; LEADING EDGES; MAGMA GENERATIONS; MAGMATIC ARCS; MIDDLE JURASSIC; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC ISLANDS; OLIGOCENE; OXIDATION ZONES; PAKISTAN; PALEOCENE; PLIOCENE; PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; PORPHYRY COPPERS; PORPHYRY SYSTEMS; SERICITE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUPERGENE; TECTONIC UPLIFTS; TECTONOMAGMATIC EVOLUTIONS;

CAVITY RESONATORS; CLAY ALTERATION; CLAY MINERALS; COPPER; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; IRON ORES; MAGNETITE; MICA; MINERALOGY; MOLYBDENUM; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDE MINERALS; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

BASALT; BATHOLITH; CALC ALKALINE ROCK; COPPER; GOLD; GRANODIORITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ISLAND ARC; LIMESTONE; MAGMATISM; MAGNETITE; MINERALIZATION; NEUTRALIZATION; PALEOCENE; PLUTONISM; PORPHYRY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

ASIA; BALUCHISTAN; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 65149101957     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.8.1583     Document Type: Article

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