S saturation history of Nain Plutonic Suite mafic intrusions: Origin of the Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu-Co sulfide deposit, Labrador, Canada

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 23-50

  Lightfoot, Peter C ^a   Keays, Reid R ^b   Evans Lamswood, Dawn ^c   Wheeler, Robert ^c  

^a VALE S A   (Brazil)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Vale Newfoundland and Labrador Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

Labrador; Metal depletion; Nickel sulfide; Platinum group elements; Voisey's Bay

Indexed keywords

BRECCIA; COBALT; COPPER; DIKE; GABBRO; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT; PETROLOGY; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; PLUTON; PYRRHOTITE; SATURATION; SULFIDE GROUP;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; VOISEY'S BAY;

EID: 84856224882     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-011-0347-6     Document Type: Article

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