Siderophile and chalcophile metal variations in flood basalts from the Siberian trap, Noril'sk region: Implications for the origin of the Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ores

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 439-462

  Lightfoot, Peter C ^a   Keays, Reid R ^b,c  

^a Engineering Building   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SIBERIAN TRAP FLOODS;

COPPER; GEOCHEMISTRY; LANTHANUM; NICKEL; ORES; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; SAMARIUM; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE MINERALS; ZIRCONIUM;

BASALT;

COPPER; FLOOD BASALT; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NORIL'SK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EID: 24044508588     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.3.439     Document Type: Article

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