Tourmaline B-isotopes fingerprint marine evaporites as the source of high-salinity ore fluids in iron oxide copper-gold deposits, Carajás Mineral Province (Brazil)

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 743-746

  Xavier, Roberto Perez ^a   Wiedenbeck, Michael ^b   Trumbull, Robert B ^b   Dreher, Ana M ^c   Monteiro, Lena V S ^a   Rhede, Dieter ^b   de Araújo, Carlos E G ^a   Torresi, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Geological Survey of Brazil   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boron isotopes; Caraj s Mineral Province; Irom oxide copper gold deposits; Marine evaporites

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; B VALUES; BORON ISOTOPES; CRITICAL ISSUES; EVAPORITE; EVAPORITES; GANGUE MINERALS; HOST ROCKS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; IROM OXIDE COPPER-GOLD DEPOSITS; MAGMATIC SOURCES; MARINE EVAPORITES; METALLOGENESIS; ORE FLUIDS; SALINITY SOURCES; SECONDARY IONS;

BORATE MINERALS; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; BORON DEPOSITS; COPPER; COPPER DEPOSITS; COPPER OXIDES; FLUIDS; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IRON DEPOSITS; IRON OXIDES; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; MINING; NONMETALS; ORE TREATMENT; ORES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

MINERALS;

BORON ISOTOPE; COPPER; EVAPORITE; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; IRON OXIDE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALLOGENESIS; ORE DEPOSIT; SALINITY; TOURMALINE;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; CARAJAS; PARA [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 54949118772     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24841A.1     Document Type: Article

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