Base metal - Platinum-group element sulfides from the Urals and the Eastern Alps: Characterization and significance for mineral systematics

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 177-211

  Melcher, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALOGY; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOURCE ROCK; SULFIDE; TRACE ELEMENT;

URALS;

EID: 0001119870     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007100050009     Document Type: Article

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