Image analysis and composition of platinum-group minerals in the J-M reef, stillwater complex

Economic Geology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 637-651

  Godel, Bélinda ^a   Barnes, Sarah Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); COPPER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRIDIUM; IRON ORES; LANDFORMS; LASER ABLATION; MAGNETITE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OSMIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; REEFS; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; SILICATES; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

BASE METAL; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSES; ISOFERROPLATINUM; LASER ABLATION ICP-MS; MONTANA; PD-CU ALLOYS; PLATINUM GROUPS; PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS;

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

BASE METAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETITE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; STILLWATER COMPLEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53749092983     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.103.3.637     Document Type: Article

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