The age and character of alteration and mineralization at the Buckhorn Gold Skarn, Okanogan County, Washington, USA

Located in Okanogan County, Washington, USA the Buckhorn mine is one of the largest gold skarns in North America (2.15 Mt at 14 ppm Au). Buckhorn is hosted in Permian Anarchist Group metasedimentary rocks and Jurassic Elise Formation metavolcanic rocks. Monzodiorite comagmatic with the metavolcanic...

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Main Author: Scorrar, Brendan Alfred
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43178