Extreme PGE concentrations in lower Cambrian acid tuff layer from the Kunyang phosphate deposit, Yunnan province, South China-Possible PGE source for lower Cambrian Mo-Ni-polyelement ore beds

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1047-1056

  Pašava, Jan ^a   Frimme, Hartwig ^a,b,c   Taiyi, Luo ^d   Koubová, Magdalena ^a   Martínek, Karel ^a  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALES; CAMBRIANS; CLAY FRACTIONS; GLASS FRAGMENTS; ILLITE-SMECTITE; INTERMETALLIC PHASIS; ISOTOPE DATA; ISOTOPE RATIO; MATRIX; PHOSPHATIC NODULES; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; PYRITE FORMATION; ROCK SAMPLE; ROCK TYPES; S RATIO; SOUTH CHINA; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IRIDIUM; ISOTOPES; PALLADIUM; PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS; PLATINUM; QUARTZ; RHODIUM; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHALE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLAY MINERALS;

BLACK SHALE; CAMBRIAN; ILLITE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; ORE BODY; PALLADIUM; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORITE; PLATINUM; QUARTZ; RHODIUM; RUTHENIUM; SMECTITE; TUFF;

CHINA; YANGTZE PLATFORM; YUNNAN;

EID: 78751512165     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1047     Document Type: Article

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