The platiniferous Au-Pd belt of minas gerais, brazil, and genesis of its botryoidal Pt-Pd aggregates

Economic Geology

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1265-1276

  Cabral, Alexandre R ^a,b   Lehmann, Bernd ^b   Tupinambǎ, Miguel ^c   Rogerio, Sandra ^d   Schlosser, Kwitko Ribeiro ^e   Abreu, Francisco R De ^f  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d University of Tübingen and Curt Engelhorn Zentrum Archäometrie   (Germany)

^e Centro de Desenvolvimento Mineral   (Brazil)

^f 254 Departamento Geologia Centro   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; CU ALLOY; DILUTE SOLUTION; GOLD AGGREGATES; GOLD MINERALIZATION; HIGH OXIDATION STATE; HOST ROCKS; IN-SITU; IRON FORMATION; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LOW TEMPERATURES; MINAS GERAIS; MINAS GERAIS , BRAZIL; OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS; OXIDATION STATE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL TECTONICS; REGIONAL TRENDS; THRUST FAULTS; TRACE METAL;

ABLATION; COPPER ALLOYS; DEPOSITS; DISSOLUTION; GALLIUM; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IRON ORES; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; OXIDE MINERALS; PLATINUM; PLATINUM ALLOYS; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

PALLADIUM;

ABLATION; ALLOY; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; GREENSTONE; HEAVY METAL; HEMATITE; HOST ROCK; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MINERALIZATION; MOBILIZATION; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZITE; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

EID: 78751589164     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.104.8.1265     Document Type: Article

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