Potarite (Pd-Hg) in thermally metamorphosed dunite from the Inazumi-yama ultramafic complex, southwestern Japan: An implication for the behaviour of mercury in PGE mineralization in peridotite

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-377

  Arai, S ^a   Prichard, H M ^b   Matsumoto, I ^c   Fisher, P C ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Dowa Engineering Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Metamorphosed dunite; Potarite; Sangun zone; Stibiopalladinite; Thermal metamorphism

Indexed keywords

DUNITE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METAMORPHISM; PERIDOTITE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; POTARITE;

HONSHU; INAZUMI-YAMA; JAPAN;

EID: 0032859179     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1999.063.3.08     Document Type: Article

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