Lithospheric, cratonic, and geodynamic setting of Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1057-1070

  Begg, Graham C ^a,b   Hronsky, Jon A M ^c,d   Arndt, Nicholas T ^e   Griffin, William L ^a   O'Reilly, Suzanne Y ^a   Hayward, Nick ^f  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Minerals Targeting International   (Australia)

^c BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f Teck Australia PL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNESITE; MELTING; MINERAL EXPLORATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR DEPOSITS;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DECOMPRESSION MELTING; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; MAFIC-ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; NI-CU-PGE SULFIDE DEPOSITS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES;

DEPOSITS;

ACTIVE FAULT; ASTHENOSPHERE; COPPER; CRATON; GEODYNAMICS; HOST ROCK; LITHOSPHERE; NICKEL; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SULFIDE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 78751544596     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.105.6.1057     Document Type: Article

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