Exploration tools for linked porphyry and epithermal deposits: Example from the mankayan intrusion-centered Cu-Au district, Luzon, Philippines

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1365-1398

  Chang, Zhaoshan ^a,e   Hedenquist, Jeffrey W ^b   White, Noel C ^b   Cooke, David R ^a   Roach, Michael ^a   Deyell, Cari L ^a   Garcia Jr , Joey ^c,e   Gemmell, J Bruce ^a   McKnight, Stafford ^d   Cuison, Ana Liza ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b PO Box 5181 ^*  (Australia)

^c Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION PEAKS; AIRBORNE GEOPHYSICS; BASEMENT ROCKS; DICKITE; ENARGITE; EPITHERMAL; EPITHERMAL DEPOSITS; EROSION LEVEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FORMATION TEMPERATURE; GEOLOGIC UNITS; HIGH NA; HIGH SULFIDATION; LA-ICP-MS; LA-ICP-MS ANALYSIS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOCAL ZONES; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; METAVOLCANIC ROCKS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MINERAL COMPOSITION; MIOCENE; PHILIPPINES; PLIOCENE; POST-MINERALIZATION; PYROCLASTIC ROCKS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH INFRARED; SMECTITES; SPECTRUM SHIFTS; SULFIDATION; SURFACE SAMPLE; VEIN DEPOSITS; VOLCANICLASTICS; WIDE ZONE;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEMAGNETIZATION; DEPOSITS; GOLD DEPOSITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INFRARED RADIATION; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SILVER; SODIUM;

NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

ALUNITE; BASEMENT ROCK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COPPER; DACITE; DEMAGNETIZATION; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; EXPLORATION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GOLD; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; KAOLINITE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETITE; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; MIOCENE; ORE BODY; PLIOCENE; PORPHYRY; SMECTITE; SULFIDE; TUFF; VEIN (GEOLOGY); VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

LUZON; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 81855216342     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.8.1365     Document Type: Article

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