Sulfide-bearing veinlets throughout the stratiform mineralization of the Central African Copperbelt: Temporal and genetic implications

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1361-1368

  Sillitoe, Richard H ^a   PerellÓ, José ^b   García, Alfredo ^b  

^a Antofagasta Minerals SA ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Antofagasta Minerals SA   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSIONS; BOTSWANA; COPPERBELT; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO; DIAGENETICS; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EARLY DIAGENESIS; HOST ROCKS; KALAHARI; MAFIC SILLS; MAGMATISMS; MORPHIC; NAMIBIA; OREBODIES; PASSIVE FLUID; SALINE FLUIDS; SILTSTONES; SILVER MINERALIZATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; COBALT; COPPER; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

MINERALOGY;

BEARING CAPACITY; COPPER; DIKE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; HOST ROCK; MAFIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; MINERALIZATION; MOBILIZATION; QUARTZ; RIFTING; SILL; SILVER; STRATIFORM DEPOSIT; SULFIDE;

BOTSWANA; CENTRAL AFRICA; COPPERBELT; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; NAMIBIA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 79953205586     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.105.8.1361     Document Type: Article

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