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Model for Reef-Type Platinum Group Element Deposits
February 16, 2012 | USGS

Layered, ultramafic to mafic intrusions are uncommon in the geologic record, but host magmatic ore deposits containing most of the world’s economic concentrations of platinum-group elements. These deposits are mined primarily for their platinum, palladium, and rhodium contents. Quoted from the USGS publication release.


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