The Spar Lake strata-bound Cu-Ag deposit formed across a mixing zone between trapped natural gas and metals-bearing brine

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1223-1249

  Hayes, Timothy S ^a   Andis, Gary P L ^b   Helan, Joseph F W ^b   Rye, Robert O ^b   Moscati, Richard J ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HELIUM; BACTERIAL SULFATE REDUCTION; CALCITE-CEMENT; FLUID INCLUSION; FORMATION WATER; GAS RESERVOIR; HOST ROCKS; ISOTOPE RATIO; LIQUID PETROLEUM; MIXING ZONES; ORE FORMATION; REACTION ZONES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SOURCE ROCKS; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THERMAL CRACKING; THERMOCHEMICAL SULFATE REDUCTION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BRINES; CALCITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEMENTS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER SILVER DEPOSITS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); HELIUM; ISOTOPES; LAKES; MANGANESE; METALS; MINERALOGY; MIXING; NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION; ORE DEPOSITS; ORES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SANDSTONE; SEAWATER; SOUR GAS; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

DEPOSITS;

BRINE; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; COPPER; HOST ROCK; MAGMATISM; MIXING; NATURAL GAS; ORE DEPOSIT; SANDSTONE; SILVER; SOURCE ROCK; THERMOCHEMISTRY; FLUID INCLUSION; GOLD; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84867133508     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.6.1223     Document Type: Article

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