Gold-bearing arsenopyrite in eastern Kazakhstan gold-sulfide deposits

Russian Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 178-192

  Kovalev, K R ^a   Kalinin, Y ^a   Naumov, E A ^a   Kolesnikova, M K ^a   Korolyuk, V N ^a  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Eastern Kazakhstan; Gold bearing arsenopyrite; Gold sulfide deposits

Indexed keywords

ARSENOPYRITE; BLACK SHALE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FUGACITY; GOLD; MINERALIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOURCE ROCK; STOICHIOMETRY; SULFIDE;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 78751611451     PISSN: 10687971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rgg.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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