Geochemistry of the Permian Kalatongke Mafic Intrusions, Northern Xinjiang, Northwest China: Implications for the genesis of magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-203

  Zhang, Zhaochong ^a   Mao, Jingwen ^b   Chai, Fengmei ^b   Yan, Shenghao ^b   Chen, Bailin ^b   Pirajno, Franco ^c,d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS STRATA; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; EARLY PALEOZOIC; FAULT ZONE; HOST ROCKS; LATE PALEOZOIC; LIQUIDUS; LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; MAFIC INTRUSION; NORTHWEST CHINA; OROGENIC BELTS; ORTHOPYROXENE; PERMIAN; ROCK TYPES; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SULFIDE MELT; SULFIDE ORES; XINJIANG;

DEPOSITS; MICA; NICKEL; NICKEL DEPOSITS; NIOBIUM; OLIVINE; RUBIDIUM; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFUR DEPOSITS; TANTALUM;

SULFIDE MINERALS;

BIOTITE; COPPER; DIORITE; FAULT ZONE; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HORNBLENDE; HOST ROCK; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; NORITE; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 67649668667     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.2.185     Document Type: Article

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