Geology, age, and fluid inclusions of the Tanjianshan gold deposit, western China: Two orogenies and two gold mineralizing events

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 250-263

  Dequan, Zhang ^a   Hongquan, She ^a   Chengyou, Feng ^a   Daxin, Li ^a   Jinwen, Li ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Orogenic gold deposit; Tanjianshan; Western China

Indexed keywords

ALTERED ROCK; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLING STRUCTURE; DUCTILE SHEAR; FAULT ZONE; FINE GRAINS; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID SYSTEMS; GOLD MINERALIZATION; GOLD ORES; HIGHLY STRAINED; HYDROTHERMAL MINERALS; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; ISOCHRON AGE; MAGMATIC FLUIDS; MESOZOIC; MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE; MINERALIZING FLUIDS; MYLONITES; NORTHERN MARGIN OF THE QAIDAM BASIN; ORE FLUIDS; OREBODIES; OROGENIC BELTS; OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSIT; PALAEOZOIC; SERICITE; SHEAR ZONE; SINISTRAL STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; TANJIANSHAN; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; THREE GENERATIONS; TWO PHASIS; WESTERN CHINA;

DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; GOLD; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORES; OXIDE MINERALS; PYRITES; QUARTZ; RUBIDIUM; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

AGE DETERMINATION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FLUID INCLUSION; FOLDING; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QAIDAM MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI;

EID: 70350557038     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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