Chromitite formation-a key to understanding processes of platinum enrichment

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 111, Issue JAN/APR, 2002, Pages

  Kinnaird, J A ^a   Krugger, F J ^a   Nex, P A M ^a   Cawthorn, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; PLATINUM; ROCKS; SILICATES; STRONTIUM;

RADIOGENIC COMPONENTS;

CHROMITE;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHROMITITE; ENRICHMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MIXING; PLATINUM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; UNCONFORMITY;

BUSHVELD COMPLEX; MERENSKY REEF; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036377636     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/aes.2002.111.1.23     Document Type: Article

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