Quantitative mineralogical characterization of karst bauxite deposits in the southern apennines, Italy

Economic Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 813-833

  Boni, M ^a   Rollinson, G ^b   Mondillo, N ^a   Balassone, G ^a   Santoro, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROMETRY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PETROGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTITATIVE PHASE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; KAOLINITE; LANDFORMS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRACE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BAUXITE DEPOSITS;

BAUXITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; KARST; LATERITE; MINERALOGY; OOID; ORE DEPOSIT; PETROGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84877333686     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.108.4.813     Document Type: Article

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