Fluid sources and the role of abiogenic-CH 4 in Archean gold mineralization: Constraints from noble gases and halogens
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2011
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Kendrick, Mark
Honda, Masahiko
Walshe, J.
Petersen, K.
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The St Ives Goldfield of Western Australia hosts high grade gold mineralization in a variety of lithologies within ∼2.7Ga greenstone belts. The low salinity CO2-bearing fluids responsible for gold mineralization could have been generated either by metam
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Keywords: Archean; argon isotope; basement rock; fluid inclusion; gold; greenstone belt; halogen; helium isotope; host rock; isotopic composition; isotopic ratio; lithology; magmatism; methane; mineralization; noble gas; Australia; New South Wales; Saint Ives Abiogenic-methane; Archean; Fluid inclusions; Magmatic; Orogenic gold; Yilgarn
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