Timing of gold mineralization in the hutti gold deposit, Dharwar craton, South India

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1715-1727

  Sarma, D Srinivasa ^a,b,c   McNaughton, Neal J ^b   Fletcher, Ian R ^b   Groves, David I ^b   Mohan, M Ram ^a   Balaram, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GOLD DEPOSITIONS; GOLD MINERALIZATIONS; GRANITOIDS; GRANODIORITE; GREENSTONE BELTS; HOST ROCKS; MAGMATISM; OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS; OROGENIC GOLDS; ROCK ALTERATIONS; SHEAR ZONES; SOUTH INDIA; STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATIONS; TONALITE; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIES; U-PB ZIRCONS; XENOTIME;

FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MICA; MINERALOGY; MONAZITE; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PYRITES; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

AMPHIBOLITE; ARCHEAN; ARSENOPYRITE; CRATON; FACIES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; GRANITOID; GRANODIORITE; GREENSTONE BELT; HOST ROCK; METAMORPHOSIS; MINERALIZATION; TONALITE; TRONDHJEMITE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ASIA; DHARWAR CRATON; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 65349193908     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.8.1715     Document Type: Article

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