Cotectic precipitation of olivine and sulfide liquid from komatiite magma and the origin of komatiite-hosted disseminated nickel sulfide mineralization at Mount Keith and Yakabindie, Western Australia

Economic Geology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-304

  Barnes, Stephen J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; OLIVINE; SULFIDE MINERALS;

FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; MINERALIZATION;

MINERALOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; KOMATIITE; MAGMA; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; OLIVINE; ORE DEPOSIT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOLUBILITY; SULFIDE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MOUNT KEITH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34547782680     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.102.2.299     Document Type: Article

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