Composition of the marginal rocks and sills of the rustenburg layered suite, Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Implications for the formation of the platinum-group element deposits

Economic Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1491-1511

  Barnes, Sarah Jane ^a   Maier, Wolfgang D ^b   Curl, Edward A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Shell Petroleum Global Exploration   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC ANDESITE; BONINITES; BUSHVELD COMPLEX; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENT; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MAJOR OXIDES; MANTLE MAGMAS; MANTLE MELT; MINERAL COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PARTIAL MELT; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENTS; SOUTH AFRICA; SUB-CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERIC MANTLES; THOLEIITIC BASALTS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE ELEMENT PATTERNS; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BARIUM; BASALT; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITS; EUROPIUM; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; MINERALS; MIXING; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORE DEPOSITS; OSMIUM; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; ZIRCONIUM;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BONINITE; CHROMIUM; CRUST; CUMULATE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA; ORE DEPOSIT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SILL;

BUSHVELD COMPLEX; NORTH WEST PROVINCE; RUSTENBURG; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79953180046     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.105.8.1491     Document Type: Article

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