Textural features and chemical evolution in tantalum oxides: Magmatic versus hydrothermal origins for Ta mineralization in the Tanco Lower pegmatite, Manitoba, Canada

Economic Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-276

  Van Lichtervelde, Marieke ^a   Salvi, Stefano ^a   Beziat, Didier ^a   Linnen, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FELDSPAR; FRACTIONATION; TANTALUM; TEXTURES;

PEGMATITE; PETROGENESIS;

MINERALOGY;

CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; HOST ROCK; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PARAGENESIS; PEGMATITE; PETROGENESIS; SOURCE ROCK; TANTALUM; TEXTURE;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547729626     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.102.2.257     Document Type: Article

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