Hydrothermal wall rock alteration at Kurdeman gold mine area, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-95

  El Makky, A M ^a   Khalil, K I ^b   Ibrahim, I M ^a  

^a Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^b Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Alteration; Exploration; Gold; Mobility; Statistical analyses

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT MOBILITY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SILICIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EASTERN DESERT; EGYPT;

EID: 84864411432     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2012/0210     Document Type: Article

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