Laterally extensive modified placer gold deposits in the paleoproterozoic Mississagi formation, clement and Pardo Townships, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 779-792

  Long, D G F ^a   Ulrich, T ^b   Kamber, B S ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BRAIDED RIVER; CATCHMENT AREA; CLOSED SYSTEMS; GOLD CONCENTRATION; HYPERCONCENTRATED FLOW; LAKE FORMATION; LOW FLOW; ONTARIO; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PYRITE GRAINS; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDES;

CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; GALLIUM; GOLD; LAKES; LEACHING; MICA; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

ARCHEAN; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; GOLD; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; PYRITE; QUARTZ; WEATHERING;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 79958100139     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e10-101     Document Type: Article

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