The evolution of troctolitic and high Al basaltic magmas in Proterozoic anorthosite plutonic suites and implications for the Voisey's Bay massive Ni-Cu sulfide deposit

Economic Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 677-701

  Scoates, James S ^a   Mitchell, Jeremy N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; COPPER; MAGMATISM; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL;

CANADA;

EID: 0033893180     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.95.4.677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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