PGE-bearing minerals in Silurian sedex deposits in the Poblet area, southwestern Catalonia, Spain

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 581-595

  Canet, Carles ^a   Alfonso, Pura ^b   Melgarejo, Joan Carles ^b   Jorge, Susana ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Facultad de Humanidades y Educacion   (Spain)

Author keywords

Black shale; Catalonia; Gold; I llingite; Metamorphism; Palladium; Sedex; Selenides; Spain; Sperrylite; Tellurides

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; SHALE;

METAMORPHISM;

MINERALOGY;

BLACK SHALE; GOLD; LEAD; METAMORPHISM; MINERALIZATION; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SILURIAN; TELLURIDE; ZINC;

CATALONIA; PRADES MOUNTAINS; SPAIN;

EID: 0043180429     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.41.3.581     Document Type: Article

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