Kinetics of iron depletion near pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite inclusions in sphalerite-the sphalerite speedometer

Economic Geology

Volumn 92, Issue 7-8, 1997, Pages 772-783

  Mizuta, Toshio ^a,b   Scott, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOPYRITE; GEOSPEEDOMETRY; IRON; PYRRHOTITE; SPHALERITE;

EID: 0031396448     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.92.7-8.772     Document Type: Article

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