Compositional and textural variation in detrital chrome-spinels from the Murray Basin, southeastern Australia

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 191-204

  Pownceby, M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Chrome spinel; Ilmenite concentrates; Murray Basin

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEPOSITION; FEEDSTOCKS; ILMENITE; PIGMENTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHROME-SPINELS; CONTAMINANT GRAINS; MURRAY BASIN, AUSTRALIA; PROCESSING CONDITIONS;

MINERALOGY;

CHROME SPINEL; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; ILMENITE; SPINEL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MURRAY BASIN; WORLD;

EID: 20444399840     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0026461056920246     Document Type: Article

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