Synsedimentary to early diagenetic gold in Black shale-hosted pyrite nodules at the Golden Mile deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1157-1191

  Steadman, Jeffrey A ^a   Large, Ross R ^a   Meffre, Sebastien ^a   Olin, Paul H ^a   Danyushevsky, Leonid V ^a   Gregory, Daniel D ^a   Belousov, Ivan ^a   Lounejeva, Elena ^a   Ireland, Trevor R ^b   Holden, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEPOSITS; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; IRON ORES; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MICA; OIL SHALE; ORES; PYRITES; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE; SILICATE MINERALS; SILVER; SLATE; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

COMPOSITIONAL ZONATION; DEEP-WATER SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORE-FORMING PROCESS; PRE-CONCENTRATION; RADIOGENIC ISOTOPES; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; VOLCANIC SUCCESSIONS;

CARBONACEOUS SHALE;

BLACK SHALE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DIAGENESIS; GOLD MINE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERAL PROPERTY; PYRITE; SULFIDE; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

AUSTRALIA; KALGOORLIE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84938376091     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: 15540774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.110.5.1157     Document Type: Article

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