Geochemistry and geochronology of the volcanic rocks associated with the Dong'an adularia-sericite epithermal gold deposit, Lesser Hinggan Range, Heilongjiang province, NE China: Constraints on the metallogenesis

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 158-174

  Zhang, Zhaochong ^a   Mao, Jingwen ^b   Wang, Yanbin ^c   Pirajno, Franco ^d,e   Liu, Junlai ^a   Zhao, Zhidan ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dong'an; Epithermal gold; Extensional setting; Geochronology; NE China

Indexed keywords

DONG'AN; EPITHERMAL; EPITHERMAL GOLD; EXTENSIONAL SETTING; NE CHINA;

DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; LEAD; LEAD DEPOSITS; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; NEODYMIUM; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRONTIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON DEPOSITS;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ADULARIA; ARGON-ARGON DATING; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMA; MANTLE SOURCE; MESOZOIC; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; ORE GRADE; PARTIAL MELTING; QUARTZ VEIN; SHRIMP DATING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG; XIAO HINGGAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77953287945     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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