Layered intrusions: Fundamentals, novel observations and concepts, and controversial issues

RM Latypov, O Namur, Y Bai, SJ Barnes… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Layered intrusions are fossilized natural laboratories that historically have constrained many
fundamental principles of igneous petrology. Layered intrusions are typically stratiform …

The Not-So-Boring Billion: A metallogenic conundrum during the evolution from Columbia to Rodinia supercontinents

M Santosh, DI Groves - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Following the commencement of assembly of Columbia at ca. 2.0 to 1.8 Ga with its normal
convergent margin metallogeny rich in orogenic gold and VMS Cu-Zn-Pb systems, the Earth …

USGS critical minerals review.

SM Fortier, NT Nassar, KD Kelley… - Mining …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on the concerns about the lack of domestic production and availability of
essential mineral raw materials were a recurring theme throughout the 20th century …

Deep magmatic staging chambers for crustal layered mafic intrusions: An example from the Bushveld Complex of southern Africa

J Cole, CA Finn, SJ Webb - Precambrian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The deep mafic magmatic staging chambers of layered mafic intrusions have been
conjectured but not imaged. Their existence has long been postulated from geochemical …

[PDF][PDF] USGS critical minerals review

SM Fortier, JH Hammarstrom, SJ Ryker… - Mining …, 2019 - researchgate.net
Annual Review 2020: Critical Minerals in material science have made nearly all the naturally
occurring elements in the periodic table increasingly important for a broad portfolio of …

Self-organisation in gabbroic cumulates: a new patterning mechanism driven by differential migration of immiscible liquids in a crystal mush?

MB Holness - Journal of Petrology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Self-organisation in plutonic igneous rocks has been suggested to form by a variety of
mechanisms including oscillatory nucleation and growth, competitive particle growth (CPG) …

The geochemical and textural transition between the Reef Package and its hanging wall, Stillwater Complex, Montana, USA

MC Jenkins, JE Mungall, ML Zientek, K Butak… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The highest grade Pd-Pt deposit on Earth, the JM Reef, is hosted in coarse-grained
to pegmatoidal cumulates called the Reef Package. Decades of mine development of the JM …

Investigating the Influence of Crustal Contamination on the Stillwater Complex, Montana Using Sr, Nd, and Pb Isotopes

EK Benson, DS Coleman, AE Boudreau - Journal of Petrology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The presence of pegmatoid bodies in the Stillwater Complex is poorly understood, but they
have been suggested to have resulted from the presence of fluids in the complex. To better …

The role of hydrothermal processes and the formation of the JM reef and associated rocks of olivine-bearing zone I of the Stillwater Complex, Montana

AR Gupta, AE Boudreau - Mineralium Deposita, 2024 - Springer
Several lines of evidence, including hydrous melt inclusions and unusually Cl-rich apatite,
have been used to suggest that the reappearance of olivine and PGE-sulfide of the JM Reef …

Where are the feeder channels for platinum reefs in the Bushveld Complex?

R Latypov, S Chistyakova - Mineralium Deposita, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Bushveld Complex in South Africa hosts the lion's share of the world's noble
metal resources in platinum reefs–thin layers of silicate/chromite rocks containing platinum …