Tremendous crystal-Paracoquimbite and its polytype coquimbite found for the first time in Hongshan Hs-epithermal Cu-Au deposit, eastern Tianshan, NW-China, and its significance;东天山红山Ｃｕ.Ａｕ矿床氧化带首次发现的副针绿矾 巨晶及其多型针绿矾

Yanshi Xuebao/Acta Petrologica Sinica

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1112-1122

  Qin, KeZhang ^a   Ding, KuiShou ^a   Xu, YingXia ^a,b   Miao, Yu ^a   Fang, TongHui ^a   Xu, XingWang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b HEBEI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coquimbite; East Tianshan Mountains; Hongshan HS epithermal Cu Au deposit; Megacryst; Oxidization zone; Paracoquimbite; Polytype

Indexed keywords

EID: 85168634173     PISSN: 10000569     EISSN: 20958927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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