Field relationships and geochemical constraints on the emplacement of the Jinchuan intrusion and its Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposit, Gansu, China

Economic Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-94

  Lehmann, Jérémie ^a   Arndt, Nicholas ^a   Windley, Brian ^b   Zhou, Mei Fu ^c   Wang, Christina Yan ^c   Harris, Chris ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MAPPING; PETROLOGY;

GRANITOID ROCKS; OXYGEN FUGACITY; PLATINOID DEPOSITS;

SULFUR DEPOSITS;

EMPLACEMENT; FIELD METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; GNEISS; GRANITOID; GREENSCHIST FACIES; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA; PETROLOGY; SULFIDE; TRACE ELEMENT; XENOLITH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; JINCHUAN;

EID: 34447313367     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.102.1.75     Document Type: Article

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