Platinum-group minerals from five placer deposits in British Columbia, Canada

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1687-1710

  Barkov, Andrei Y ^a,b   Fleet, Michael E ^a   Nixon, Graham T ^c   Levson, Victor M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alaskan Uralian type complexes; British Columbia; Canada; Ir OS alloys; Ir Os Ru alloys; PGE mineralization; Placer deposits; Platinum group elements; Platinum group minerals; Pt Fe alloys; Pt Fe Cu alloys; Ultramafic mafic rocks; Zoning

Indexed keywords

CANADA; PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS; PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS; ULTRAMAFIC-MAFIC ROCKS;

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; IRIDIUM ALLOYS; PLACERS; PLATINUM ALLOYS; SOLID SOLUTIONS; TEXTURES;

MINERALOGY;

MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; PLACER DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 32944468175     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscanmin.43.5.1687     Document Type: Article

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