Banded Iron Formation to Blue Dust: Mineralogical and geochemical constraints from the Precambrian Jilling-Langalata Deposits, Eastern Indian Craton

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 178-188

  Roy, Subrata ^a   Venkatesh, A S ^b  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Banded Iron Formation; Blue Dust; Genesis; Haematite; Iron ore; Singhbhum Orissa Craton

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; DUST DEPOSITS; EASTERN INDIA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FINE GRAINED; FINE GRAINS; GANGUE MINERALS; GENESIS; HAEMATITE; HOST ROCKS; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; HYDROTHERMALLY; INDIAN CRATON; IRON ENRICHMENT; IRON RICH; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; PH CONDITION; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIMARY CONTROL; SILICA REMOVAL; SUPERGENE; SUPERGENE PROCESS;

DEPOSITS; DUST; HEMATITE; IRON; IRON ORES; IRON OXIDES; KAOLINITE; LEACHING; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SILICA;

IRON DEPOSITS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEMATITE; HOST ROCK; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; IRON ORE; IRON OXIDE; MINERALOGY; ORE DEPOSIT; PETROGENESIS; PRECAMBRIAN; QUARTZ;

INDIA; SINGHBHUM CRATON;

EID: 77949442461     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174327509X12550990343083     Document Type: Article

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