Mechanism and kinetics of a mineral transformation under hydrothermal conditions: Calaverite to metallic gold

American Mineralogist

Volumn 94, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1541-1555

  Zhao, Jing ^a,b   Brugger, Joël ^b,c   Grundler, Pascal V ^b,c   Xia, Fang ^b,c   Chen, Guorong ^a   Pring, Allan ^b,c  

^a East China University of Science and Technology   (China)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calaverite; Dissolution reprecipitation; Gold; Pseudomorphism; Replacement

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; GOLD; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUCLEATION; ORES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REACTION KINETICS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TEXTURES;

CALAVERITE; DISSOLUTION-REPRECIPITATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; HYDROTHERMAL CONDITIONS; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PSEUDOMORPHISM; REPLACEMENT;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FORMATION MECHANISM; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; NUCLEATION; P-T CONDITIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PSEUDOMORPH; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; REPLACEMENT; SURFACE AREA; TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 77249130256     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2009.3252     Document Type: Article

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