The Qiyugou gold-bearing breccia pipes, Xiong'ershan region, central China: Fluid-inclusion and stable-isotope evidence for an origin from magmatic fluids

International Geology Review

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-45

  Fan, Hong Rui ^a   Hu, Fang Fang ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Yang, Kui Feng ^a   Jin, Chen Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fluid inclusion; gold bearing breccia pipes; Qiyugou; stable isotope; Xiong'ershan region

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DIATREME; FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MAGMATISM; METASOMATISM; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY; SALINITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFIDE GROUP; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 77956461532     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206810902875370     Document Type: Article

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