Enrichment of PGE through interaction of evolved boninitic magmas with early formed cumulates in a gabbro-breccia zone of the Mesoarchean Nuasahi massif (eastern India)

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-91

  Mondal, Sisir K ^a,b   Zhou, Mei Fu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Boninite; Breccia; Chromite; Gabbro; India; Metasomatism; Nuasahi; PGE

Indexed keywords

BONINITE; BRECCIA; CHROMITE; CUMULATE; ENRICHMENT; GABBRO; MAGMA; METASOMATISM; MINERALIZATION; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT;

INDIA; SINGHBHUM CRATON;

EID: 77749326544     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-009-0264-0     Document Type: Article

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