Kendrick, MarkHonda, MasahikoWalshe, J.Petersen, K.2015-12-080301-9268http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31830The 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 metamKeywords: 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; YilgarnFluid sources and the role of abiogenic-CH 4 in Archean gold mineralization: Constraints from noble gases and halogens201110.1016/j.precamres.2011.07.0152016-02-24