Fluid sources and metallogenesis in the Blackbird Co-Cu-Au-Bi-Y-REE district, Idaho, U.S.A.: Insights from major-element and boron isotopic compositions of tourmaline

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-244

  Trumbull, Robert B ^a   Slack, John F ^b   Krienitz, Marc Sebastian ^a   Belkin, Harvey E ^b   Wiedenbeck, Michael ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackbird; Boron isotopes; Chemical composition; Cobalt enriched belt; Fluid sources; Idaho; Metallogeny; SIMS; Stratabound sulfides; Tourmaline

Indexed keywords

BLACKBIRD; BORON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FLUID SOURCES; IDAHO; METALLOGENY; SIMS; STRATABOUND SULFIDES; TOURMALINE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BISMUTH; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; BORON DEPOSITS; COBALT; DEPOSITS; FLUIDS; GOLD; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MINERALOGY; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SULFUR DEPOSITS;

SILICATE MINERALS;

BORON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COBALT; CRETACEOUS; GRANITE; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METALLOGENESIS; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT; TOURMALINE; WALL ROCK;

BLACKBIRD; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 79954496013     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.49.1.225     Document Type: Article

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