The first report of cobalt pentlandite from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal deposit

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-28

  Mozgova, Nadezhda N ^a   Krasnov, Sergey G ^b   Batuyev, Boris N ^c   Borodaev, Yury S ^d   Efimov, Andrey V ^a   Markov, Vladimir F ^c   Stepanova, Tamara V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY OF ORE DEPOSITS   (Russian Federation)

^b VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA   (Russian Federation)

^c PMGRE   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cobalt pentlandite; Electron microprobe data; Mid Atlantic Ridge

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPOUNDS; COBALT PENTLANDITE; ELECTRON-MICROPROBE DATA; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; MINERAL CHEMISTRY; SULPHUR DEPOSIT;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0029750364     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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