District to camp controls on the genesis of komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide deposits, agnew-wiluna greenstone belt, western australia: Insights from the multiple sulfur isotopes

Economic Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 781-796

  Fiorentini, Marco ^a   Beresford, Steve ^a   Barley, Mark ^a   Duuring, Paul ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Rosengren, Nic ^c,e   Cas, Ray ^c   Hronsky, Jon ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

^e Minerals Exploration BHP Billiton   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY DATA; GREENSTONE BELTS; HIGH IMPACT; HOST ROCKS; ISOTOPE VALUES; KEY CONTROL; KOMATIITE; LAVA DOME; LAVA FLOWS; MULTIPLE SULFUR ISOTOPES; NICKEL SULFIDE; ORE GENESIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; VOLCANICLASTICS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; NICKEL DEPOSITS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLCANOES;

NICKEL;

DATA SET; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EMPLACEMENT; EXPLORATION; FELSIC ROCK; GREENSTONE BELT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; KOMATIITE; LAVA FLOW; MASSIVE SULFIDE; NICKEL; ORE DEPOSIT; SULFIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TURBULENT FLOW;

AGNEW-WILUNA BELT; AUSTRALIA; NORSEMAN-WILUNA GREENSTONE BELT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84862486818     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.107.5.781     Document Type: Article

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