Geology and district-scale setting of tilted alkalic porphyry Cu-Au mineralization at the Lorraine deposit, British Columbia

Economic Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 939-977

  Devine, Fionnuala A M ^a,c   Chamberlain, Claire M ^a   Davies, Andrew G S ^a   Friedman, Richard ^b   Baxter, Paul ^a,d  

^a Teck Cominco Metals Ltd   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Merlin Geoscience Inc   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GOLD DEPOSITS; LEAD; LEVEES; MICA; SILICA; SULFIDE MINERALS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COPPER SULFIDES; EARLY JURASSIC; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZED ZONE; PORPHYRY DEPOSITS; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC; UPB ZIRCON AGE (SHRIMP);

MINERALOGY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; COPPER; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; JURASSIC; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PEGMATITE; PORPHYRY; PYROXENITE; SYENITE; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84897124342     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: 15540774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.109.4.939     Document Type: Article

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