Sulfur isotopes in sediment-hosted orogenic gold deposits: Evidence for an early timing and a seawater sulfur source

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 971-974

  Chang, Zhaoshan ^a   Large, Ross R ^a   Maslennikov, Valery ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN INVERSIONS; CURRENT MODELS; DATA SETS; GOLD MINERALIZATION; GOLD OCCURRENCE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MEAN VALUES; MEDIAN VALUE; OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS; RE-PRECIPITATION; SULFIDATION; SULFUR ISOTOPE; SULFUR SOURCE;

DEPOSITS; GOLD; ISOTOPES; OXIDE MINERALS; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

GOLD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENY; PYRITE; SEAWATER; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; IRKUTSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SUKHOI LOG;

EID: 69649090417     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25001A.1     Document Type: Article

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