Atacamite inclusions in rock-forming feldspars and copper-bearing smectites from the Radomiro Tomic mine, Chile: Copper-insoluble mineral occurrences

Economic Geology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 401-420

  Brimhall, George H ^a   Levi, Beatriz ^b   Nyström, Jan Olov ^c   Enrique, Tidy F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Box 50007 ^*  (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COPPER ORE TREATMENT; COPPER OXIDES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; LEACHING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SULFURIC ACID; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTRON MICROPROBE;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

COPPER; FELDSPAR; INCLUSION; MINERALOGY; PORPHYRY; SMECTITE;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; RADIOMIRO TOMIC;

EID: 0035264784     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.96.2.401     Document Type: Article

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