Hidden mineral deposits in Cu-dominated porphyry-skarn systems: How resource reporting can occlude important mineralization types within mining camps

Economic Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1185-1193

  Jowitt, Simon M ^a   Mudd, Gavin M ^a   Weng, Zhehan ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION; EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; MINERAL PROCESSING; MINERAL RESERVES; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; PORPHYRY-CU DEPOSITS; RESERVE ESTIMATES; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION;

COPPER DEPOSITS; DISCOVERY WELLS; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; GOLD DEPOSITS; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALOGY; SILVER; SILVER DEPOSITS;

DEPOSITS;

COPPER; DEPOSITION; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; MINING INDUSTRY; OUTCROP; PORPHYRY; SKARN;

INDONESIA;

EID: 84878750520     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.108.5.1185     Document Type: Article

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