Spessartine-tourmaline-bearing manganiferous itabirite at Miguel Congo: Petrographic evidence for a Mn-rich meta-exhalite in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 313-318

  Cabral, Alexandre Raphael ^a  

^a NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Minas Gerais; Spessartine tourmaline bearing itabirite

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; MANGANESE; PETROGRAPHY; PROBES; SEDIMENTS;

MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE;

MINERALS;

EXHALATIVE DEPOSIT; MANGANESE; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS; QUADRILATERO FERRIFERO; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0942299878     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174503225003125     Document Type: Article

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