The geotectonic setting, age and mineral deposit inventory of global layered intrusions

WD Smith, WD Maier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present paper, we have compiled data on 565 layered and differentiated igneous
intrusions globally, documenting their (i) location,(ii) age,(iii) size,(iv) geotectonic setting,(v) …

The Bushveld Complex, South Africa

RG Cawthorn - Layered intrusions, 2015 - Springer
The mafic rocks of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, were emplaced into a stable
cratonic shield some 2.06 by ago, and have remained remarkably well preserved from …

The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: formation of platinum–palladium, chrome-and vanadium-rich layers via hydrodynamic sorting of a mobilized cumulate slurry in a …

WD Maier, SJ Barnes, DI Groves - Mineralium Deposita, 2013 - Springer
Platinum-group element (PGE) deposits in the Bushveld Complex and other layered
intrusions form when large, incompletely solidified magma chambers undergo central …

A REE-in-two-pyroxene thermometer for mafic and ultramafic rocks

Y Liang, C Sun, L Yao - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
A REE-in-two-pyroxene thermometer for mafic and ultramafic rocks has been developed on
the basis of the temperature and pyroxene composition dependent rare earth element (REE) …

Platinum-group element deposits in layered intrusions: recent advances in the understanding of the ore forming processes

B Godel - Layered intrusions, 2015 - Springer
The major deposits of platinum-group elements (PGE) of the Earth are associated with
ultramafic and mafic igneous rocks. The bulk of current PGE production is extracted from …

Crustally contaminated komatiite: primary source of the chromitites and Marginal, Lower, and Critical Zone magmas in a staging chamber beneath the Bushveld …

HV Eales, G Costin - Economic Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the lowermost rocks of the Rustenburg Layered Suite (Bushveld Complex), levels of total
Cr2O3 are up to ten times higher than its putative solubility (0.16% Cr2O3) in the magmas …

Geochronological, petrological, and geochemical constraints on Ni-Cu sulfide mineralization in the Poyi ultramafic-troctolitic intrusion in the northeast rim of the Tarim …

S Xue, K Qin, C Li, D Tang, Y Mao, L Qi… - Economic …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Poyi magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposit is situated in the Beishan fold belt in the
northeastern rim of the Tarim craton. Many Permian magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits, such …

The role of Te, As, Bi, Sn and Sb during the formation of platinum-group-element reef deposits: Examples from the Bushveld and Stillwater Complexes

ET Mansur, SJ Barnes - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The distribution of platinum-group element (PGE) and Te, As, Bi, Sb and Sn (TABS) in whole-
rock samples, and in disseminated base metal sulfides (BMS) pentlandite, pyrrhotite and …

Petrogenesis and ore genesis of the Permian Huangshanxi sulfide ore-bearing mafic-ultramafic intrusion in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, western China

YJ Mao, KZ Qin, C Li, SC Xue, EM Ripley - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Permian Huangshanxi mafic-ultramafic intrusion hosts one of the two largest
magmatic sulfide deposits in the Eastern Tianshan which is situated in the southern margin …

Petrogenesis of the Lower Zone olivine-rich cumulates beneath the Platreef and their correlation with recognized occurrences in the Bushveld Complex

MA Yudovskaya, JA Kinnaird… - Economic …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Previously unknown Lower zone ultramafic sequences are described beneath the Platreef in
the northern limb of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa). The Lower zone is separated from …