Ore genesis constraints on the Idaho cobalt belt from fluid inclusion gas, noble gas isotope, and ion ratio analyses

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1189-1205

  Andis, Gary P L ^a   Hofstra, Albert H ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBITIZATION; CHLORIDE COMPLEXES; FLUID INCLUSION; FLUID SOURCES; GANGUE MINERALS; GENETIC MODELS; HOMOGENIZATION TEMPERATURES; HYPERSALINE; MAGMATIC FLUIDS; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE SOURCE; MARINE SOURCES; METAMORPHIC FLUIDS; METAMORPHIC GRADE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; NEON ISOTOPES; NOBLE GAS ISOTOPES; ORE GENESIS; ORE ZONES; PRECAMBRIAN; QUARTZ VEIN; RATIO ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SALINE FLUIDS;

BRINES; BROMINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COBALT; COBALT DEPOSITS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITS; FLUORSPAR; GARNETS; GASES; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; HELIUM; IONS; IRON OXIDES; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICA; MINERALOGY; NEON; NIOBIUM; ORES; QUARTZ; SEAWATER; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TECTONICS;

ARGON;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DIAGENESIS; FLUID INCLUSION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; ION; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; NOBLE GAS; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; AMPHIBOLITE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT;

BELT BASIN; BLACKBIRD; COEUR D'ALENE; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84867116867     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1189     Document Type: Article

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