Palladium and platinum minerals from the Serra Pelada Au-Pd-Pt deposit, Carajás mineral province, northern Brazil

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1451-1463

  Cabral, Alexandre Raphael ^a   Lehmann, Bernd ^a   Kwitko Ribeiro, Rogerio ^a   Cravo Costa, Carlos Henrique ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b VALE S A   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Caraj s mineral province; Native palladium; Native platinum; Palladian gold; Pd O phase; Platinum group minerals; Serra Pelada garimpo

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CORE DRILLING; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

MINERALIZATION;

MINERALOGY;

GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MINERAL DEPOSIT; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

BRAZIL; CARAJAS; PARA STATE;

EID: 0036818822     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.40.5.1451     Document Type: Article

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