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Science 13 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5797, pp. 263 - 264
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134456
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
How Fast Does Gold Trickle Out of Volcanoes?

Christoph A. Heinrich

The enormous hydrothermal gold ore deposit on Lihir Island, Papua Guinea, may have formed in less than 55,000 years.

The author is in the Department of Earth Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich and University of Zürich, Clausiusstrasse 25, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: heinrich{at}erdw.ethz.ch

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