Partial melting of the assemblage sphalerite + galena + pyrrhotite + chalcopyrite + sulfur implications for high-grade metamorphosed massive sulfide deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 781-786

  Stevens, Gary ^a   Prinz, Sebastian ^a   Rozendaal, Abraham ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGE; CHALCOPYRITE; GALENA; HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM; PARTIAL MELTING; PYRRHOTITE; SPHALERITE; SULFIDE DEPOSITS;

COPPER COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DECOMPOSITION; HEATING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MELTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

MINERALOGY;

COPPER; HIGH PRESSURE; MASSIVE SULFIDE; METAMORPHISM; PARTIAL MELTING;

EID: 31644442693     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.4.781     Document Type: Article

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