Multiple sulfur and iron isotope composition of magmatic Ni-Cu-(PGE) sulfide mineralization from eastern Botswana

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-116

  Fiorentini, Marco L ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Rouxel, Olivier ^c   Wing, Boswell A ^d   Maier, Wolfgang ^e   Rumble, Douglas ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^f GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BOTSWANA; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; GREENSTONE BELTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-PRECISION; HOST ROCKS; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; IRON ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE VALUES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; NICKEL SULFIDE; ORE-FORMING; SEA FLOOR; SILICATE MELTS; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SULFIDE MINERALIZATION; SULFUR SOURCE;

DEPOSITS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; SILICATES; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

IRON DEPOSITS;

ARCHEAN; COPPER; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; GRANITE; GREENSTONE BELT; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; IRON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT; SEAFLOOR; SILICATE; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

BOTSWANA;

EID: 84855872208     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.1.105     Document Type: Article

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