The Catalão I niobium deposit, central Brazil: Resources, geology and pyrochlore chemistry

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-121

  Cordeiro, Pedro Filipe de Oliveira ^a   Brod, José Affonso ^a,b   Palmieri, Matheus ^a,c   de Oliveira, Claudinei Gouveia ^a   Barbosa, Elisa Soares Rocha ^a,b   Santos, Roberto Ventura ^a   Gaspar, José Carlos ^a   Assis, Luis Carlos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c Anglo American Brazil LTDA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbonatite; Catal o I; Nelsonite; Phoscorite; Pyrochlore

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITES; DIKE SWARMS; ISOTOPIC FEATURE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGMATISMS; NELSONITE; OREBODIES; PHOSCORITE; PYROCHLORES; ROCK DEPOSIT;

ALKALINITY; BARIUM; CARBONATES; DEPOSITS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; IODINE; IRON ORES; MINERALOGY; NIOBIUM; NIOBIUM DEPOSITS; OLIVINE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; ROCKS; SODIUM; WEATHERING;

NIOBIUM OXIDE;

CARBONATITE; DIKE SWARM; DOLOMITE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAGMA; MINERALIZATION; NIOBIUM; ORE BODY; ORE DEPOSIT; PYROCHLORE;

BRAZIL; CATALAO; GOIAS;

EID: 80052753539     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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