Computer modelling of ore body formation by a multi-disciplinary approach: Some initial results pertaining to the cooling of buried bodies of molten rock (magma chambers) and attendant hydrothermal circulation

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 53-57

  Rice, Alan ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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Indexed keywords

MINERALIZATION; MODELING; ORE BODY;

EID: 0031826230     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Rice A., Botha A., Harrison K., Moore J., Clayton P., Panagon S. and Watkins K. (1997). 3-Dimensional calculations of transport processes associated with convection in freezing magma chambers and attendant hydrothermal circulation in country rock. Proc. South African Geophysical Association Fifth Technical Meeting, Swakopmund, pp. 77-80.
2. Rice A. and von Gruenewaldt G. (1994). Convective scavenging and cascade enrichment in Bushveld melts: a possible mechanism for the concentration of PGEs and chromite in mineralized layers. Trans. Inst. Min. Metall., 103, B31-B38.
3. Rice A.R. and Eales H.V. (1995). The densities of Bushveld melts: textural and hydrodynamic criteria. Mineral. Petrol. 54, 45-53.
4. Van den Berg A. and Rice A.R. (1993). Low and then intermediate Rayleigh number numerical models of magma chambers: on the trail to the Bushveld. Proc. Symposium on Layering in Igneous Complexes, Wager and Brown 25th Anniversary Commemorative Meeting, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 8-10 Sept., pp. 102-103.
5. Rice A. (in press). PGE enrichment due to the splitting of freezing magma chambers by suspended crystal loads. Explor. Mining Geol.
6. Xuequan E. and Hopfinger E.J. (1990). Stratification by solid particle suspension. In Stratified Flows, eds E.J. List and G.H. Jirka. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.
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