The Pulang porphyry copper deposit and associated felsic intrusions in Yunnan province, Southwest China

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-92

  Li, Wenchang ^a,b   Zeng, Pusheng ^c   Hou, Zengqian ^d   White, Noel C ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Yunnan Geological Survey   (China)

^c China Metallurgical Geology Bureau   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERATION ZONES; GRANODIORITE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; ISLAND ARC; K-AR DATING; LATE TRIASSIC; NORTHWESTERN YUNNAN; ORE FORMATION; PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; POTASSIUM SILICATES; SERICITE; SOUTHWEST CHINA; TRIASSIC; WHOLE PROCESS; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

COPPER; DEPOSITS; MICA; OSMIUM; POTASSIUM; QUARTZ; SILICATES;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

BIOTITE; COPPER; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; FELSIC ROCK; GRANODIORITE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MINERALIZATION; MOLYBDENITE; ORE DEPOSIT; PORPHYRY; QUARTZ; TECTONICS; TRIASSIC;

CHINA; PULANG; SICHUAN; YIDUN ARC; YUNNAN;

EID: 79953311315     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.1.79     Document Type: Article

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