The origin of platinum group minerals from the Freetown intrusion, Sierra Leone, inferred from osmium isotope systematics

Economic Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 539-548

  Bowles, J F W ^a,b   Lyon, I C ^a   Saxton, J M ^a   Vaughan, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Mineral Science Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; METALLOGENESIS; OSMIUM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; WEATHERING;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 0033936933     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.95.3.539     Document Type: Article

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