Analytical fingerprint of columbite-tantalite (coltan) mineralisation in pegmatites - Focus on Africa

Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Publication Series

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 615-624

  Melcher, F ^a   Graupner, T ^a   Henjes Kunst, F ^a   Oberthur T ^a   Sitnikova, M ^a   Gabler E ^a   Gerdes, A ^b   Bratz H ^c   Davis, D ^d   Dewaele, S ^e  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b Institute of Geosciences Petrology and Geochemistry   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LAND USE; LASER ABLATION; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; LITHOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; NIOBIUM; ORES; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TANTALATE MINERALS; TANTALUM; TIN; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ANALYTICAL TOOLS; ARCHAEAN; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENTS; ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSES; ETHIOPIA; FINGERPRINTING SYSTEMS; IONISATION; LASER ABLATION PLASMAS; MAJOR AND MINOR ELEMENTS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MINERAL LIBERATIONS; MINERAL- ASSEMBLAGES; MINERALISATION; MOZAMBIQUE; NAMIBIA; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORE CONCENTRATES; PILOT STUDIES; STATE OF THE ARTS; U-PB DATING; UNITED NATIONS; WORKING GROUPS;

MINERALS;

EID: 58049135315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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