The role of surface geochemistry in the discovery of the Babel and Nebo magmatic nickel-copper-PGE deposits

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-200

  Baker, Phil M ^a   Waugh, Robert S ^a  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Babel and Nebo deposit; Deflation lag sampling; Musgrave Block; Nickel sulphide exploration

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; COPPER DEPOSITS; COPPER NICKEL DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD DEPOSITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; NICKEL DEPOSITS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PLATINUM; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AUSTRALIA; GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (ICPMS); INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; MULTIELEMENT ANALYSIS; MUSGRAVE BLOCK; NICKEL SULPHIDE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

GEOCHEMISTRY; ORE DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

NEBO;

EID: 23044456271     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-032     Document Type: Article

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