Assessment of tourmaline compositions as an indicator of emerald mineralization at the tsa da glisza prospect, Yukon Territory, Canada

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 713-731

  Galbraith, Christopher G ^a   Clarke, Barrie D ^a   Trumbull, Robert B ^b   Wiedenbeck, Michael ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERATION ZONES; BORON ISOTOPES; CLASSIFICATION MATRIX; GREENSCHIST; INPUT VARIABLES; IRON RICH; ISOTOPE RATIO; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MULTIVARIATE CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PORPHYROBLASTS; QUARTZ VEIN; ROCK TYPES; STEPWISE DISCRIMINANT; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BARIUM; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPIUM; GEMS; GRANITE; ISOTOPES; LANTHANUM; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MINERALOGY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NIOBIUM; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; ROCKS; RUBIDIUM; SCANDIUM; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; TANTALUM; TIN; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; YTTERBIUM; ZINC; ZIRCONIUM;

SILICATE MINERALS;

APLITE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRAVITE; EMERALD; GREENSCHIST FACIES; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METAVOLCANIC ROCK; PORPHYROBLAST; QUARTZ VEIN; TOURMALINE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 70349641167     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.5.713     Document Type: Article

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