Sulfide-silicate textures in magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ore deposits: Massive, semi-massive and sulfide-matrix breccia ores

SJ Barnes, S Staude, M Le Vaillant, R Piña… - Ore Geology …, 2018 - Elsevier
… of formation of sulfide-rich magmatic ores as whole. Sulfide matrix ore breccias are … by
flooding of percolating sulfide melt through the silicate matrix of magmatic intrusion breccias, …

Textural development in sulfide-matrix ore breccias in the Voisey's Bay Ni-Cu-Co deposit, Labrador, Canada

SJ Barnes, M Le Vaillant, PC Lightfoot - Ore Geology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
… Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ores are marked by a wide … of sulfide-matrix breccias, by which
we mean assemblages of silicate rock fragments within a matrix of original magmatic sulfide

Textural development in sulfide-matrix ore breccias in the Aguablanca Ni-Cu deposit, Spain, revealed by X-ray fluorescence microscopy

SJ Barnes, R Piña, M Le Vaillant - Ore Geology Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
… The intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu sulfide deposit at Aguablanca … sulfide-matrix ore breccias. These
are polymict, comprising autoliths and xenoliths in sulfide-rich and/or sulfide-poor matrices. …

Partition of Ni between olivine and sulfide and its application to Ni-Cu sulfide deposits

ME Fleet, ND MacRae - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1983 - Springer
… Electron microprobe analysis of product olivine was made on ~ 50 gm diameter grains
separated from the sulfide matrix to eliminate the severe matrix interference experienced with in …

Sulfide ore formation of the Kalatongke Ni-Cu deposit as illustrated by sulfide textures

YJ Mao, SJ Barnes, B Godel… - Economic …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… In addition, monosulfide solution (MSS, pyrrhotite component)-enriched sulfide globules are
commonly located close to sulfide matrix ore breccias and emulsion-textured ores, rimming …

Controls on the composition of Ni-Cu sulfide deposits as illustrated by those at Noril'sk, Siberia

AJ Naldrett, VA Fedorenko, M Asif, S Lin… - Economic …, 1996 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… The Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits of the Noril'sk region have developed in feeder channels for …
rock adjacent to massive ore or occupies the matrix of breccia zones that have developed at …

The formation of Pt–Ir alloys and Cu–Pd-rich sulfide melts by partial desulfurization of Fe–NiCu sulfides: results of experiments and implications for natural systems

A Peregoedova, SJ Barnes, DR Baker - Chemical Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
… from the Mss matrix in the form … CuNi–Pd-rich liquid formed by partial melting of the sulfides
could migrate away from the Mss and Fe–Ir–Pt alloys thus spatially decoupling Ir–Pt and Cu

A laser ablation ICP-MS study of platinum-group and chalcophile elements in base metal sulfide minerals of the Jinchuan NiCu sulfide deposit, NW China

LM Chen, XY Song, LV Danyushevsky, YS Wang… - Ore Geology …, 2015 - Elsevier
… The paper presents concentrations of the platinum-group and chalcophile elements in
the base metal sulfides (BMS) from the Jinchuan NiCu sulfide deposit determined by laser …

Variation of trace elements in chalcopyrite from worldwide Ni-Cu sulfide and Reef-type PGE deposits: implications for mineral exploration

E Caraballo, S Dare, G Beaudoin - Mineralium Deposita, 2022 - Springer
… Differences between working values in a few of RM and those measured in this study
could be a result of heterogeneity and non-matrix matched materials or due to the low level of …

The occurrence and origin of pentlandite-chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite loop textures in magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide ores

SJ Barnes, V Taranovic, LE Schoneveld… - Economic …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… Data are subdivided by textural type as defined in the text, shown in A and B for massive
or semimassive (including sulfide matrix breccia, denoted Bx) samples only and C and D for …