Precious metals in ocean-ridge basalts; implications for basalts as source rocks for gold mineralization

RR Keays, RB Scott - Economic Geology, 1976 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… A STUDY of 'the precious metal contents of oceanridge basalts 'has been undertaken to gain
an in, sight into the possible evolution of A.rchean greenstone belts and their associated Au …

Using precious metal probes to quantify mid-ocean ridge magmatic processes

H Hao, IH Campbell, RJ Arculus, MR Perfit - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
… The low PGE content of the most primitive mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) suggests that …
We show that the lack of decline in the Pd content of sulfide-saturated mid-ocean ridge basalts, …

Zinc, copper, and lead in mid-ocean ridge basalts and the source rock control on Zn/Pb in ocean-ridge hydrothermal deposits

BR Doe - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1994 - Elsevier
… in mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) and the MORB sourcerock control on Zn/Pb in ocean-ridge
Cu largely extracted in first melting and precious metals in a second; SOLOMON, 1990) …

Geochemical characteristics of mid-ocean ridge basalts

SS Sun, RW Nesbitt, AY Sharaskin - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1979 - Elsevier
… mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB), together with a basalt sample from the offshore slope of
the Yap Trench and a basalt from the Tertiary ophiolite complex of eastern Taiwan. Rare earth …

187Os186Os ratios of mid-ocean ridge basalts and abyssal peridotites

M Roy-Barman, CJ Allègre - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1994 - Elsevier
… MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALTS (MORBs) and abyssal peridotites sampled at the bottom of
the ocean are assumed to be the complementary products of the mantle partial melting under …

Redox heterogeneity in mid-ocean ridge basalts as a function of mantle source

E Cottrell, KA Kelley - Science, 2013 - science.org
… Through a global survey of mid-ocean ridge basalt glasses, we show that mantle oxidation
state varies systematically as a function of mantle source composition. Negative correlations …

Search for the proverbial mantle osmium sources to the oceans: Hydrothermal alteration of mid-ocean ridge basalt

M Sharma, EJ Rosenberg, DA Butterfield - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2007 - Elsevier
… For calculating the yearly input of non-radiogenic Os from alteration of mid-ocean ridge
basalt we utilize the flow rates estimated for the high- and low-temperature fluids by Elderfield …

Geochemistry of basalts from the Indian Ocean triple junction: implications for the generation and evolution of Indian Ocean ridge basalts

RC Price, AK Kennedy, M Riggs-Sneeringer… - Earth and Planetary …, 1986 - Elsevier
Basalts dredged from ridge axes within 70 km of the Indian … common with depleted mid-ocean
ridge basalts (MORBs) from … In contrast, basalts dredged from 250 to 400 km southwest of …

Platinum-group element systematics in Mid-Oceanic Ridge basaltic glasses from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans

A Bézos, JP Lorand, E Humler, M Gros - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2005 - Elsevier
The concentrations of Ir, Ru, Pt and Pd have been determined in 29 Mid-Oceanic Ridge
basaltic (MORB) glasses from the Pacific (N = 7), the Atlantic (N = 10) and the Indian (N = 11) …

Polymetallic massive sulfides and gold mineralization at mid-ocean ridges and in subduction-related environments

PM Herzig, MD Hannington - Handbook of marine mineral …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
… of the volcanic rocks varies from mid ocean ridge basalts (MORB) to calk-… -ocean ridge
basalts (N-MORB) and more felsic lavas. In the southern Lau Basin, the lavas consist of basaltic-…