Associations of platinum-group minerals from the Zolotaya gold placer, Primorye, Russian Far East

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 583-599

  Shcheka, Galina G ^a   Vrzhosek, Alexandr A ^a   Lehmann, Bernd ^b   Tolstykh, Nadezhda D ^c  

^a FAR EAST GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gold bearing placers; Platinum group elements; Platinum group minerals; Primorye; Pt Fe alloy; Russia; Uralian Alaskan type complex

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; COMPOSITION; PLATINUM ALLOYS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS;

EXSOLUTION TEXTURE; PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS (PGM);

MINERALOGY;

GOLD; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; PLACER DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

EURASIA; PRIMORYE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 3142663242     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.42.2.583     Document Type: Article

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