Sources of placer platinum in Yukon: Provenance study from detrital minerals

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 879-896

  Fedortchouk, Yana ^a,b   LeBarge, William ^a  

^a Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; CHROMITE DEPOSITS; CHROMIUM; ILMENITE; MINERALOGY; MINING; OXIDE MINERALS; PLACERS; PLATINUM; ROCKS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; TRANSITION METALS; ZINC;

CHROMIAN SPINELS; CLINOPYROXENES; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CONTINENTAL RIFTS; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; MAFIC INTRUSIONS; MAGMATISM; MAGNESIAN ILMENITES; MINERAL SAMPLES; PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS; PROVENANCE STUDIES; SOURCE ROCKS; TITANOMAGNETITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; ULTRAMAFIC SILLS;

MINERALS;

DETRITUS; PLACER DEPOSIT; PLATINUM; PROVENANCE; RIFTING; SILL; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CANADA; FLORENCE CREEK; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 54549119327     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E08-032     Document Type: Article

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