Petrogenetic significance of Au-Bi-Te-S associations: The example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia

Lithos

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Ciobanu, Cristiana L ^a,b   Birch, William D ^c   Cook, Nigel J ^a,b   Pring, Allan ^a,b   Grundler, Pascal V ^a,b  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bismuth melts; Focussed ion beam; Gold deposits; Maldonite; Remobilisation; Tetradymite group; Thermodynamic modelling; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; COMPLEXITY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERPRINTING; PARAGENESIS; PETROGENESIS; REMOBILIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFUR; SYMPLECTITE; TELLURIDE; TELLURIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AUSTRALIA; LACHLAN FOLD BELT; MALDON; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 77949275734     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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