Geological and geochemical characteristics and ore genesis of the Keketale VMS Pb-Zn deposit, Southern Altai Metallogenic Belt, NW China

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-126

  Wan, Bo ^a   Zhang, Lianchang ^a   Xiao, Wenjiao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Back arc basin; Chinese Altai; Keketale Pb Zn deposit; VMS deposit

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC; BACK-ARC BASIN; BACTERIAL SULFATE REDUCTION; CHINESE ALTAI; CORRELATION DIAGRAMS; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; CRUSTAL SOURCES; DEVONIANS; DISCRIMINATION DIAGRAM; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH FIELD STRENGTH ELEMENTS; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LARGE ION LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; METALLOGENIC BELT; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NW CHINA; ORE GENESIS; OREBODIES; PB ISOTOPES; SERICITE; SULFIDE ORES; TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY; VOLCANIC ARC; VOLCANOGENIC MASSIVE SULFIDES; XINJIANG;

BARIUM; CAVITY RESONATORS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; LEAD ZINC DEPOSITS; NEODYMIUM; ORE DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; YTTERBIUM; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE; ZIRCONIUM;

LEAD;

BACKARC BASIN; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD; MANTLE SOURCE; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METALLOGENESIS; ORE BODY; ZINC;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77749341492     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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