Chromian spinel composition and platinum-group element mineralogy of chromitites from the Milia area, Pindos ophiolite complex, Greece

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1037-1056

  Kapsiotis, Argyrios ^a   Grammatikopoulos, Tassos A ^a   Tsikouras, Basilios ^a   Hatzipanagiotou, Konstantin ^a   Zaccarini, Federica ^b   Garuti, Giorgio ^b  

^a SGS Lakefieid Research Limited   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alloys; Chromitites; Greece; Laurite; Ophiolites; Pindos; Platinum group minerals (PGM)

Indexed keywords

ALLOY GRAINS; CHROMIAN SPINEL; CHROMITITES; COMPOSITE GRAINS; COMPOSITIONAL DATA; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GREECE; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; MAGNESIOCHROMITE; MELT EXTRACTION; OPHIOLITE COMPLEX; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; PLATINUM-GROUP; PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS; SUPRASUBDUCTION;

ALLOYS; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IRIDIUM; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OSMIUM; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; ZONING;

PLATINUM ALLOYS;

ALLOY; BONINITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHROMITITE; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EXTRACTION METHOD; LAURITE; MAGMATISM; MINERALOGY; OPHIOLITE; PERIDOTITE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SPINEL;

GREECE; PINDUS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 73849108139     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.47.5.1037     Document Type: Article

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