Strata-bound Fe-Co-Cu-Au-Bi-Y-REE deposits of the Idaho cobalt belt: Multistage hydrothermal mineralization in a magmatic-related iron oxide copper-gold system

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1089-1113

  Slack, John F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE GRANITE; ALLANITE; ANHEDRAL; BISMUTHINITE; BORON ISOTOPES; BULK COMPOSITIONS; DISTINCT ELEMENTS; EUHEDRAL CRYSTALS; FLUORAPATITES; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HYDROTHERMAL CONDITIONS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; HYDROTHERMAL MINERALIZATION; INTER-GROWTHS; MAGMATIC SOURCES; RE-PRECIPITATION; SELENIDES; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THIN RIM; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; XENOTIME;

BISMUTH; BORON; BORON DEPOSITS; CHLORINE; COBALT; COBALT DEPOSITS; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; IRON DEPOSITS; IRON ORES; IRON OXIDES; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MAGNETITE; MICA; MINERALOGY; MONAZITE; MONAZITE DEPOSITS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; QUARTZ; QUARTZ DEPOSITS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEPARATION; SILICATES; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TIN;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

COBALT; COPPER; DISSOLUTION; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IRON OXIDE; METAMORPHIC FACIES; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METASOMATISM; MINERALIZATION; PARAGENESIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RECRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; METAMORPHISM; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT;

BLACKBIRD; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; IDAHO; IRON CREEK; UNITED STATES;

TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84867127970     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1089     Document Type: Article

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