Gold mineralisation throughout about 45 Ma of Archaean orogenesis: Protracted flux of gold in the Golden Mile, Yilgarn craton, Western Australia

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 39, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 536-559

  Bateman, Roger ^a   Hagemann, Steffen ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; OROGENY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD; YILGARN BLOCK;

EID: 8144224230     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-004-0431-2     Document Type: Article

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