Carbonate alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale beneath the martite-microplaty hematite ore deposit at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 39, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 632-645

  Webb, Adam D ^a   Dickens, Gerald R ^a,b   Oliver, Nicholas H S ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate replacement of silica; Chemistry, mineralogy and petrography; Hypogene stage; Martite microplaty hematite ore deposits; Northwest Australia

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; HEMATITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERAL ALTERATION; ORE DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MOUNT WHALEBACK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 8144225909     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-004-0434-z     Document Type: Article

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