Young orogenic gold mineralisation in active collisional mountains, Taiwan

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 631-646

  Craw, Dave ^a   Upton, Phaedra ^b   Yu, Bing Sheng ^c   Horton, Travis ^d   Chen, Yue Gau ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gold; Hydrothermal; Mesothermal; Metamorphic fluid; Meteoric water; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; METAMORPHISM; METEORIC WATER; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENY; QUARTZ VEIN; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77957113520     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-010-0297-4     Document Type: Article

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