The BIF-hosted high-grade iron ore deposits in the archean koolyanobbing greenstone belt, Western Australia: Structural control on synorogenic- and weathering-related magnetite-, hematite-, and goethite-rich iron ore

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 917-945

  Angerer, Thomas ^a   Hagemann, Steffen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CA-METASOMATISM; COMPRESSIONAL; CROSS-DOMAIN; DEFORMATION HISTORY; GREENSTONE BELTS; LOCAL OXIDATION; MESOZOIC; ORE ZONES; ORE-FORMING; OREBODIES; PERMIAN; PROTOLITHS; RESIDUAL ENRICHMENT; SPECULARITE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUPERGENE; VADOSE ZONE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CARBONATION; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; FRACTURE; IRON DEPOSITS; IRON OXIDES; LEACHING; MAGNETITE; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; OXIDATION; QUARTZ; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TALC; WEATHERING;

ORES;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; GANGUE; GOETHITE; GREENSTONE BELT; HEMATITE; MAGNETITE; MESOZOIC; METASOMATISM; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PERMIAN;

AUSTRALIA; KOOLYANOBBING; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84865183502     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.105.5.917     Document Type: Article

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