The lened emerald prospect, Northwest Territories, Canada: Insights from fluid inclusions and stable isotopes, with implications for northern Cordilleran emerald

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1523-1539

  Marshall, Daniel D ^a   Groat, Lee A ^b   Falck, Hendrik ^c   Giuliani, Gaston ^d   Neufeld, Heather ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CS Lord Northern Geoscience Centre   (Canada)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Emerald; Fluid inclusions; Geochemistry; Lened prospect; Northwest Territories; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BRINES; CARBONATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; QUARTZ DEPOSITS; SHALE; VANADIUM;

PLUTONS; SKARN; VANADIUM-RICH EMERALD;

GARNETS;

CAMBRIAN; EMERALD; FLUID INCLUSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN; SKARN; VANADIUM;

EID: 12344288642     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.42.5.1523     Document Type: Article

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