The Santa Rita nickel sulfide deposit in the Fazenda Mirabela Intrusion, Bahia, Brazil: Geology, sulfide geochemistry, and genesis

Economic Geology

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1083-1110

  Barnes, Stephen J ^a   Osborne, Grant A ^b   Cook, Doug ^c   Barnes, Lauritz ^c   Maier, Wolfgang D ^d   Godel, Bélinda ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Emmerson Resources Limited   (Australia)

^c University of Oulu ^*  (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS ASSAY; HARZBURGITES; KOMATIITE; LAYERED INTRUSIONS; LIQUID DROPLETS; MAXIMUM GRADE; MAXIMUM VALUES; NICKEL SULFIDE; ORE ZONES; SULFIDE MINERALIZATION; TYPICAL VALUES; VERY LARGE DATABASE;

CORE DRILLING; DEPOSITS; IRON OXIDES; MINERALOGY; NICKEL DEPOSITS; OLIVINE; PLATINUM; SILICATES; STRATIGRAPHY;

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY;

BIOASSAY; DATABASE; DEPOSITION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; KOMATIITE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORE BODY; OXIDE; PYROXENITE; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; NEW MEXICO; SANTA RITA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053258473     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.106.7.1083     Document Type: Article

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