Reconnaissance lead isotope characteristics of the blackbird deposit: Implications for the age and origin of cobalt-copper mineralization in the Idaho cobalt belt, United States

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1177-1188

  Panneerselvam, K ^a   Macfarlane, Andrew W ^a   Salters, Vincent J M ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT-COPPER; CRUSTAL GROWTH; CRUSTAL SOURCES; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; IDAHO BATHOLITH; LEAD ISOTOPE; LEAD ISOTOPE CHARACTERISTIC; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; MISSISSIPPI; PB ISOTOPES; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SILICATE ROCKS; SULFIDE ORES; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

COBALT; COBALT DEPOSITS; COPPER; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; FRUITS; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALOGY; ORES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFUR;

LEAD;

COBALT; COPPER; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEAD ISOTOPE; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; MINERALIZATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; RADIOGRAPHY; SILICATE; SULFIDE;

BLACKBIRD; IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

MALUS X DOMESTICA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84867126754     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1177     Document Type: Article

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