The timing and formation of platinum-group minerals from the Creighton Ni-Cu-platinum-group Element sulfide deposit, Sudbury, Canada: Early crystallization of PGE-rich sulfarsenides

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1071-1096

  Dare, Sarah A S ^a   Barnes, Sarah Jane ^a   Prichard, Hazel M ^b   Fisher, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE METALS; EXSOLUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MICHENERITE; MONOSULFIDE SOLID SOLUTIONS; OREBODIES; OUTER LAYER; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; PLATINUM-GROUP MINERALS; SHEAR ZONE; SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEXES; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SULFIDE MELT;

ASTATINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IRIDIUM; IRON ORES; METALS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; ORE DEPOSITS; OSMIUM; PALLADIUM; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS; RHENIUM; RHODIUM; RHODIUM COMPOUNDS; SATELLITES; SILICATES; SOLID SOLUTIONS; SULFUR DEPOSITS;

PLATINUM COMPOUNDS;

COPPER; COUNTRY ROCK; CRYSTALLIZATION; NICKEL; ORE BODY; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PYRRHOTITE; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; SHEAR ZONE; SULFIDE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY;

EID: 78449300255     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1071     Document Type: Article

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