Subseafloor origin for broken hill Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization, New South Wales, Australia

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2004

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Parr, Joanna
Stevens, Brian
Carr, Graham
Page, Roderick

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Geological Society of America Inc

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Pb isotope analyses, combined with sensitive high-resolution ion-microprobe U-Pb zircon dating, suggest that the giant Broken Hill orebody formed over an ∼6 m.y. period, coincident with a number of small Broken Hill-type deposits lower in the stratigrap

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Keywords: Magnetite disseminations; Stratigraphic sequence; Fluids; Geochronology; Isotopes; Mineralogy; Sedimentary rocks; Zircon; Lead; banded iron formation; hydrothermal deposit; lead; ore deposit; Proterozoic; silver; uranium-lead dating; zinc; Australasia; Au Banded iron formations; Base metals; Broken Hill; Geochronology; Paleoproterozoic; Pb-Pb; U-Pb

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Geology

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