An experimental study on cubanite irreversibility: Implications for natural chalcopyrite-cubanite intergrowths

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 471-476

  Pruseth, Kamal L ^a   Mishra, Biswajit ^a   Bernhardt, Heinz J ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annealing; Chalcopyrite; Exsolution; Irreversibility; Isocubanite

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITS; IRON COMPOUNDS; IRON ORES; ORE DEPOSITS; SILICA;

ANNEALING EXPERIMENTS; CHALCOPYRITE; EXSOLUTION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; IRREVERSIBILITY; ISOCUBANITE; STOICHIOMETRIC COMPOSITIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION METHOD;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANNEALING; CHALCOPYRITE; CUBANITE; EXSOLUTION;

EID: 0032873716     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/ejm/11/3/0471     Document Type: Article

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