Multivariate Analysis of an LA-ICP-MS Trace Element Dataset for Pyrite

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 823-842

  Winderbaum, Lyron ^a   Ciobanu, Cristiana L ^a   Cook, Nigel J ^a   Paul, Matthew ^a   Metcalfe, Andrew ^a   Gilbert, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Correlation cluster analysis; Factor analysis; LA ICP MS; MANOVA; Parallel coordinate plots; Principal component analysis; Pyrite

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METAL ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PYRITES; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CORRELATION CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; LA-ICP-MS; MANOVA; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; PARALLEL COORDINATE PLOTS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DATA SET; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MINERALIZATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PYRITE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84867447814     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-012-9418-1     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bailey TC, Krzanowski WJ (2012) An overview of approaches to the analysis and modeling of multivariate geostatistical data. Math Geosci 44: 381-393.
2. Baker T, Mustard R, Brown V, Pearson N, Stanley CR, Radford NW, Butler I (2006) Textural and chemical zonation of pyrite at Pajingo: a potential vector to epithermal gold veins. Geochem, Explor Environ Anal 6: 283-293.
3. Bobis RE, Jaireth S, Morrison GW (1995) The anatomy of a Carboniferous epithermal ore shoot at Pajingo, Queensland: setting, zoning, alteration, and fluid conditions. Econ Geol 90: 1776-1798.
4. Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Pring A, Brugger J, Danushevsky L, Shimizu M (2009) 'Invisible gold' in bismuth chalcogenides. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 73: 1970-1999.
5. Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Utsunomiya S, Pring A, Green L (2011) Focussed ion beam-transmission electron microscopy applications in ore mineralogy: bridging micro- and nanoscale observations. Ore Geol Rev 42: 6-32.
6. Ciobanu CL, Cook NJ, Utsunomiya S, Kogagwa M, Green L, Gilbert S, Wade B (2012) Gold-telluride nanoparticles revealed in arsenic-free pyrite. Amer Mineral 97: 1515-1518.
7. Cook NJ, Chryssoulis SL (1990) Concentrations of "invisible gold" in the common sulphides. Can Mineral 28: 1-16.
8. Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Pring A, Skinner W, Danyushevsky L, Shimizu M, Saini-Eidukat B, Melcher F (2009a) Trace and minor elements in sphalerite: a LA-ICP-MS study. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 73: 4761-4791.
9. Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Mao JW (2009b) Textural control on gold distribution in As-free pyrite from the Dongping, Huangtuliang and Hougou gold deposits, North China Craton (Hebei Province, China). Chem Geol 264: 101-121.
10. Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Danyushevsky L, Gilbert S (2011) Minor and trace elements in bornite and associated Cu-(Fe)-sulfides: a LA-ICP-MS study. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 75: 6473-6496.
11. Danyushevsky L, Robinson P, Gilbert S, Norman M, Large R, McGoldrick P, Shelley M (2011) Routine quantitative multi-element analysis of sulphide minerals by laser ablation ICP-MS: standard development and consideration of matrix effects. Geochem, Explor Environ Anal 11: 51-60.
12. Everitt BS, Dunn G (2001) Applied multivariate data analysis, 2nd edn. Arnold, Sevenoaks, 342 pp.
13. Inselberg A (1985) The plane with parallel coordinates. Vis Comput 2(2): 69-91.
14. Koch I (2012) Analysis of multivariate and high-dimensional data theory and practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
15. Large RR, Maslennikov VV, Robert V, Danyushevsky LV, Chang ZS (2007) Multistage sedimentary and metamorphic origin of pyrite and gold in the giant Sukhoi Log deposit, Lena Gold Province, Russia. Econ Geol 102: 1233-1267.
16. Large RR, Danyushevsky LD, Hollit C, Maslennikov VV, Meffre S, Gilbert S, Bull S, Scott R, Emsbo P, Thomas H, Singh R, Foster J (2009) Gold and trace element zonation in pyrite using a laser imaging technique; implications for the timing of gold in orogenic and Carlin-style sediment-hosted deposits. Econ Geol 104: 635-668.
17. Manly BFJ (1994) Multivariate statistical methods: a primer. Chapman & Hall, London, 215 pp.
18. Maslennikov VV, Maslennikova SP, Large RR, Danyushevskiy LV (2009) Study of trace element zonation in vent chimneys from the Silurian Yaman-Kasy volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit (Southern Urals, Russia) using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS). Econ Geol 104: 1111-1141.
19. Paul M (2010) Geology, geochemistry and mineralogy of epithermal gold ores. Moonlight Prospect, Pajingo, North Queensland. Unpubl Hons thesis, School of Earth and Environm Sci, Univ Adelaide, Australia, 54 pp.
20. Ramdohr P (1980) The ore minerals and their intergrowths. Pergamon, New York, 1207 pp.
21. Reich M, Kesler SE, Utsunomiya S, Palenik CS, Chryssoulis SL, Ewing RC (2005) Solubility of gold in arsenian pyrite. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 69: 2781-2796.
22. Reimann C, Filzmoser P (1999) Normal and lognormal data distribution in geochemistry: death of a myth. Consequences for the statistical treatment of geochemical and environmental data. Environ Geol 39: 1001-1014.
23. Richards DR, Elliot GJ, Jones BH (1998) Vera North and Nancy gold deposits. Pajingo. Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea mineral deposits. AusIMM, Melbourne, pp 685-690.
24. Rubin DB, Thayer DT (1982) EM algorithms for ML factor analysis. Psychometrika 47: 69-76.
25. Sung YH, Brugger J, Ciobanu CL, Pring A, Skinner W, Nugus M (2009) Invisible gold in arsenian pyrite and arsenopyrite from a multistage Archaean gold deposit: Sunrise Dam, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia. Miner Depos 44: 765-791.
26. Thomas HV, Large RR, Bull SW, Maslennikov V, Berry RF, Frazer R, Froud F, Moye R (2011) Pyrite and pyrrhotite textures and composition in sediments, laminated quartz veins, and reefs at Bendigo Gold Mine, Australia: insights for ore genesis. Econ Geol 106: 1-31.
27. Winderbaum L (2011) Multivariate analysis of trace elements in pyrite. Unpubl hons thesis, School of Math Sci, Univ Adelaide, Australia. 90 pp.
28. Ye L, Cook NJ, Ciobanu CL, Liu YP, Zhang Q, Liu TG, Gao W, Yang YL, Danyushevskiy L (2011) Trace and minor elements in sphalerite from base metal deposits in South China: a LA-ICPMS study. Ore Geol Rev 39: 188-217.