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Behaviour of Ore-Forming Elements in the Sub-Continental Lithospheric Mantle Below the Slave Craton
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The transport and depositional controls of ore-forming elements such as Ag, Au, Bi, Cu, Mo, Pb, Pt, and Zn has been extensively studied in crustal environments, but the behaviour of these elements within Earth’s mantle require further study. This thesis presents new petrographic and geochemical...
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Economic significance of platinum group elements and water in asteroids: Insights from chondritic meteorites
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Asteroids are considered to be rich sources of precious metals, water, and essential volatiles for life. Such a consideration has been derived from the study of meteorites and asteroid reflectance spectra which have both been vital to our understanding of asteroid compositions. The vast amount of...
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Identify Metamorphic and Primary Multiple Sulfur Isotopic Signatures in the 2.7 Ga Pyrite Nodules from the Southwestern Superior Province (Minnesota, USA)
DownloadSpring 2016
Sulfur isotopes of some Archean rocks show unique mass independent fractionation (S-MIF) signatures, which are generally considered to have been produced by UV radiolysis on volcanic SO2 in the oxygen-free Archean atmosphere. Based on the distinct S-MIF signals of different sulfur sources (i.e.,...
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2014-05-19
This report describes the methods and samples utilized (to 2014) within the Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM), University of Alberta, for routine analysis of δ13CVPDB, δ15NAIR, and N abundances of diamonds by secondary ion mass spectrometry (Cameca IMS 1280). Analyses by...
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Probing the Mantle Cargo of Kimberlites – A Geochemical Investigation of Different Mineral Components and Evaluation of their Potential as Petrogenetic and Exploration Tools
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This thesis applies microanalytical tools to the geochemical investigation of different mineral components in the volcanic rock kimberlite. This work significantly advances the application of one of these tools, deep UV (193 nm) laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry...
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Spring 2020
Gahcho Kué is a diamond mine in the Northwest Territories of Canada that opened in 2016. This is the first study into the morphology, N systematics, and stable isotope (C and N) composition of the Gahcho Kué diamonds, and the mineral chemistry of the associated inclusions. The resulting data are...