Platinum-group minerals from the Aikora River area, Papua New Guinea

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1131-1145

  Weiser, Thorolf W ^a   Bachmann, Hans Gert ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aikora River area; Os Ir Ru alloys; Papua New Guinea; Papuan Ultramafic Belt; PGE oxides; Placer deposits; Platinum group minerals; Pt Fe alloy; Sulfarsenides; Sulfides

Indexed keywords

MINERALIZATION; PLACER DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0033500270     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. AUGÉ, T. & LEGENDRE, O. (1994): Platinum-group element oxides from the Pirogues ophiolitic mineralization, New Caledonia: origin and significance. Econ. Geol. 89, 1454-1468.
2. BACHMANN, H.G. (1988): Exploration auf Platinmetalle in Papua-Neuguinea. Die Geowissenschaften 6, 151-156.
3. _, GRAHAM, J.M., MEARES, R.M.D. & COLLINS, A.R. (1987): Exploration techniques for platinum group metals in Papua New Guinea. In Proc. Pacific Rim Congress 87. The Australasian Inst. Mining Metall., Parkville, Victoria, Australia (21-24).
4. CABRI, L.J., CRIDDLE, A.J., LAFLAMME, J.H.G., BEARNE, G.S. & HARRIS, D.C. (1981): Mineralogical study of complex Pt-Fe nuggets from Ethiopia. Bull. Minéral. 104, 508-525.
5. _ & FEATHER, C.E. (1975): Platinum-iron alloys: a nomenclature based on a study of natural and synthetic alloys. Can. Mineral. 13, 117-126.
6. _, HARRIS, D.C. & WEISER, T.W. (1996): Mineralogy and distribution of platinum-group mineral (PGM) placer deposits of the world. Explor. Mining Geol. 5, 73-167.
7. CONSTANTINIDES, C.C., KINGSTON, G.A. & FISHER, P.C. (1980): The occurrence of platinum group minerals in the chromitites of the Kokkinorotsos chrome mine, Cyprus. In Proc. Int. Ophiolite Symp., Cyprus 1979 (A. Panayiotou, ed.). Cyprus Geological Department, Nicosia, Cyprus (93-101).
8. CORRIVAUX, L. & LAFLAMME, J.H.G. (1990): Minéralogie des éléments du groupe du platine dans les chromitites de l'ophiolite de Thetford Mines, Québec. Can. Mineral. 28, 579-595.
9. DAVIES, H.L. (1971): Peridotite-gabbro-basalt complex in eastern Papua: an overthrust plate of oceanic mantle and crust. Bur. Mineral Resources, Geol. Geophys. Bull. 128.
10. DOW, D.B. (1977): A geological synthesis of Papua New Guinea. Bur. Mineral Resources, Geol. Geophys. Bull. 201.
11. FORD, R.J. (1981): Platinum-group minerals in Tasmania. Econ. Geol. 76, 498-504.
12. GARUTI, G., ZACCARINI, F., CABELLA, R. & FERSHTATER, G. (1997): Occurrence of unknown Ru-Os-Ir-Fe oxides in the chromitites of the Nurali ultramafic complex, southern Urals, Russia. Can. Mineral. 35, 1431-1439.
13. GRAINGER, D.J. & GRAINGER, R.L. (1974): Explanatory notes on the 1:2 500 000 mineral deposits map of Papua New Guinea. Bur. Mineral Resources, Geol. Geophys. Bull. 148.
14. HAGEN, D., WEISER, T. & THAN HTAY (1990): Platinum-group minerals in Quaternary gold placers in the upper Chindwin area of northern Burma. Mineral. Petrol. 42, 265-286.
15. HARRIS, D.C. (1974): Ruthenarsenite and iridarsenite, two new minerals from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and associated irarsite, laurite and cubic iron-bearing platinum. Can. Mineral. 12, 280-284.
16. _ & CABRI, L.J. (1973): The nomenclature of the natural alloys of osmium, iridium and ruthenium based on new compositional data of alloys from world-wide occurrences. Can. Mineral. 12, 104-112.
17. _ & _ (1991): Nomenclature of platinum-group-element alloys: review and revision. Can. Mineral. 29, 231-237.
18. JEDWAB, J. (1995): Oxygenated platinum-group-element and transition-metal (Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) compounds in the supergene domain. Chron. Rech. Minières 520, 47-53.
19. KRSTIĆ, S. & TARKIAN, M. (1997): Platinum-group minerals in gold-bearing placers associated with the Veluće ophiolite complex, Yugoslavia. Can. Mineral. 35, 1-21.
20. NIXON, G.T., CABRI, L.J. & LAFLAMME, J.H.G. (1990): Platinum-group-element mineralization in lode and placer deposits associated with the Tulameen Alaskan-type complex, British Columbia. Can. Mineral. 28, 503-535.
21. POWER-FARDY, D., MEARES, R.M.D., COLLINS, A.R. & GOLDNER, P.T. (1990): Platinum group element mineralisation in Papua New Guinea. In Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea (F.E. Hughes, ed.). Australasian Inst. Mining Metall., Parkville, Victoria, Australia (1703-1705).
22. RAICEVIC, D. & CABRI, L.J. (1976): Mineralogy and concentration of Au- and Pt-bearing placers from the Tulameen River area in British Columbia. Can. Inst. Mining Metall., Bull. 69(770), 111-119.
23. RAUB, E. (1964): Die Ruthenium-Iridium-Legierungen. Z. Metallkde 55, 316-319.
24. RUDMAN, P.S. (1967): Lattice parameters of some h.c.p. binary alloys of rhenium and osmium: Re-W, Re-Ir, Re-Pt, Os-Ir, Os-Pt. J. Less-Common Metals 12, 79-81.
25. STOCKMAN, H.W. & HLAVA, P.F. (1984): Platinum-group minerals in alpine chromitites from southwestern Oregon. Econ. Geol. 79, 491-508.
26. TARKIAN, M. & PRICHARD, H.M. (1987): Irarsite-hollingworthite solid-solution series and other associated Ru-, Os-, Ir-, and Rh-bearing PGM's from the Shetland ophiolite complex. Mineral. Deposita 22, 178-184.
27. WEISER, T. (1991): The quantitative proof of the existence of PGE-oxides. In Abstr. 6th Int. Platinum Symp. (S.J. Barnes, ed.). CSIRO, Division of Exploration Geoscience, Wembley, WA, Australia (52).