Metalliferous manganese oxide mineralization associated with the Boléo Cu-Co-Zn district, Mexico

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1173-1196

  Conly, Andrew G ^a   Scott, Steven D ^b,c   Bellon, Hervé ^c  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CRYPTOMELANE; DIAGENETIC ALTERATION; DIAGENETIC PROCESS; DIAGENETICS; GENETIC CLASSIFICATION; GEOCHEMICAL CLASSIFICATION; HOLLANDITES; ME-XICO; METAL OXIDES; METAL SOURCES; METEORIC FLUIDS; MN OXIDES; OXIDE DEPOSITION; PORE FLUIDS; PORE WATERS; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES; REDOX CONDITION; REE GEOCHEMISTRY; REMOBILIZATION; SUPERGENE; SYNSEDIMENTARY; WATER TABLES; X-RAY AMORPHOUS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BRINES; CERIUM; DEWATERING; FLUIDS; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MINERALOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

COPPER;

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAGENESIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FLUID; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HEAVY METAL; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; INFILTRATION; METAL; MINERALIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE; RADIONUCLIDE; REMOBILIZATION; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE; WATER TABLE; WEATHERING; X-RAY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 80054681532     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.7.1173     Document Type: Article

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