Wetting facilitates late-stage segregation of precious metal-enriched sulfosalt melt in magmatic sulfide systems

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 951-954

  Tomkins, Andrew G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FRACTIONATION PROCESS; MELT COMPOSITIONS; MINERAL DISTRIBUTION; MONOSULFIDE SOLID SOLUTIONS; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; PLATINUM GROUP MINERALS; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SULFOSALTS; TRIPLE JUNCTION; WETTING BEHAVIOR;

PALLADIUM; PRECIOUS METALS; SATELLITES; SOLID SOLUTIONS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; WETTING;

PLATINUM;

ARSENIC; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONATION; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SILICATE MELT; SULFOSALT GROUP; WETTING;

EID: 77958096934     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31263.1     Document Type: Article

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