Controls on lode gold mineralization, Romite deposit, South Eastern Desert, Egypt

Field and remote sensing studies reveal that Au-bearing quartz ± carbonate lodes in Romite deposit, in the extreme South Eastern Desert of Egypt, are controlled by NNE-striking shear zones that splay from the ca. 660–550 Ma Hamisana Zone. Quartz in releasing bends with sinistral shear geometry and a...

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Main Author: Basem A. Zoheir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-09-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000357