The age of the giant Golden Mile Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: ion-microprobe zircon and monazite U-Pb geochronology of a synmineralization lamprophyre dike.

Open-pit and underground mines in the Golden Mile at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, have produced more than 1,475 metric tons (t) of gold since 1893. Despite the economic importance of the deposit, the age of the mineralized shear zone array and its temporal relationship to other structures and to p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McNaughton, Neal, Mueller, A., Groves, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Society of Economic Geologists Inc 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3954