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Fluid sources and the role of abiogenic-CH 4 in Archean gold mineralization: Constraints from noble gases and halogens

Date

Authors

Kendrick, Mark

Honda, Masahiko

Walshe, J.

Petersen, K.

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

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

Keywords

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

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31830

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Precambrian Research

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.precamres.2011.07.015

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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