Silver and silver-bearing minerals at the Um Samiuki volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 39, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 608-621

  Shalaby, Ibrahim M ^a   Stumpfl, Eugen ^b   Helmy, Hassan M ^c   El Mahallawi, Mahmoud M ^c   Kamel, Omar A ^c  

^a Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c Minia University ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERAL ALTERATION; ORE DEPOSIT; SILVER;

AFRICA; EASTERN DESERT; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 8144230569     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-004-0427-y     Document Type: Article

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