A test of the viability of fluid-wall rock interaction mechanisms for changes in opaque phase assemblage in metasedimentary rocks in the Kambalda-St. Ives goldfield, Western Australia

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-213

  Evans, Katy A ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluid; Gold; Magnetite; Pyrite; Pyrrhotite; St. Ives

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MAGNETITE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MINERALIZATION; PYRITE; PYRRHOTITE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AUSTRALIA; KAMBALDA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SAINT IVES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77954029024     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-009-0260-4     Document Type: Article

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