Understanding gold-(silver)-telluride-(selenide) mineral deposits

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Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 249-263

  Cook, Nigel J ^a,b   Ciobanu, Cristiana L ^a,b   Spry, Paul G ^c   Voudouris, Panagiotis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GOLD; ORE DEPOSIT; PARAGENESIS; PETROGENESIS; SILVER; TELLURIDE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77349114231     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2009/v32i4/002     Document Type: Review

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