The nonsulfide zinc deposit at accha (Southern Peru): Geological and mineralogical characterization

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-289

  Boni, Maria ^a,b   Gluseppina Balassone, ^a   Vernon Arseneau, ^c   Paul Schmidt, ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Zincore Metals Ltd   (Canada)

^d PRS Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC MINERALS; HOST ROCKS; HYDROZINCITE; KARST CAVITY; MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS; MINERAL DEPOSITS; MINERALIZED ZONE; MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OLIGOCENE; ORE MINERALS; PLIOCENE; PORPHYRY COPPERS; SMECTITE; SUPERGENE; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

CARBONATION; CLAY MINERALS; COPPER DEPOSITS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LEACHING; LEAD; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALOGY; MINING; ORES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFATE MINERALS; ZINC; ZINC DEPOSITS;

MINERALS;

ANTICLINE; BATHOLITH; DOME; METALLOGENESIS; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PORPHYRY; SKARN; SULFIDE; WALL ROCK; ZINC;

ALTIPLANO; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67649655814     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.2.267     Document Type: Article

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