Petrology and crystallization history of multiphase sulfide droplets in a mafic dike from Uruguay: Implications for the origin of Cu-Ni-PGE sulfide deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 365-376

  Prichard, H M ^a   Hutchinson, D ^b   Fisher, P C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPETAL STRUCTURES; LIQUID CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETITE CRYSTALLIZATION;

ANTIMONY; BISMUTH; COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITION; MAGNETITE; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFUR; TELLURIUM; TEXTURES;

GEOLOGY;

COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIKE; MAFIC ROCK; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; PETROLOGY; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EID: 3342960414     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.2.365     Document Type: Article

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