Genesis and exploration implications of epithermal gold mineralization and porphyry-style alteration at the endeavour 41 prospect, Cowal District, New South Wales, Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1079-1115

  Zukowski, Wojciech ^a,d   Cooke, David R ^a   Deyell, Cari L ^a   McInnes, Paul ^b   Simpson, Kirstie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Barrick Gold of Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Mawson West Limited   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBONATION; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; FELDSPAR; GOLD DEPOSITS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; ISOTOPES; LEVEES; MAGNETITE; MICA; MINERALOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SILVER; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

EPITHERMAL GOLD DEPOSITS; EPITHERMAL MINERALIZATION; FLUID INCLUSION DATA; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; VOLCANOSEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

GOLD;

CALC ALKALINE ROCK; CHALCOPYRITE; DIKE; EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT; GALENA; GARNET; GOLD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOST ROCK; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORDOVICIAN; PORPHYRY; SILL; SPHALERITE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84897132745     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: 15540774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.109.4.1079     Document Type: Article

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