Magmatic-dominated fluid evolution in the Jurassic Nambija gold skarn deposits (southeastern Ecuador)

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 389-413

  Vallance, Jean ^a,b   Fontboté, Lluís ^a   Chiaradia, Massimo ^a   Markowski, Agnès ^c   Schmidt, Susanne ^a   Vennemann, Torsten ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Pan American Silver Peru SAC   (Peru)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aqueous carbonic fluids; Chlorite; Ecuador; Gold; Nambija; Oxygen isotope; Skarn

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE; DIORITE; FLUID INCLUSION; GARNET; GOLD; HEMATITE; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PYROXENE; QUARTZ VEIN; SALINITY; SKARN;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349240368     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-009-0238-2     Document Type: Article

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