Re-Os isotope systematics of the Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu-Co magmatic sulfide system, Labrador, Canada: II. Implications for parental magma chemistry, ore genesis, and metal redistribution

Economic Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 867-888

  Lambert, David D ^a,e   Frick, Louise R ^a   Foster, Jeffrey G ^b   Li, Chusi ^c   Naldrett, A J ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GeoDiscovery Group   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; COPPER; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING;

CANADA;

EID: 0033905733     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.95.4.867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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