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There are 2 main
types of
chromite deposits:
stratiform deposits and
podiform deposits.
Stratiform deposits in
layered intrusions are the main source...
- cratons, the most
famous example being the
Bushveld Complex in
South Africa.
Podiform Chromitites are
found in
ultramafic oceanic rocks resulting from complex...
- Proenza, Joaquin; Sole, Jesus; Melgarejo, Joan
Carles (1999). "Uvarovite in
podiform chromite: the Moa-Baracoa
ophiolitic m****if, Cuba". The
Canadian Mineralogist...
- basalts.
These bodies are
often discordant to
stratigraphy and are
quite podiform in nature. The
bodies in the
Glengarry Basin are up to 120 m
thick and...
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undertaken by the
Western Mining Corporation,
resulting in the
discovery of
podiform copper at
Warburton Range, and
eventually the
Wingelinna nickel laterite...
- may
occur without much
hydrothermal fluid flow, and this is
typical of
podiform chromite deposits.
Metamorphic processes also
control many
physical processes...
- in the harzburgite–lherzolite
transition zone. In particular, the rock
podiform chromitite bears chromite,
which is one of the ore
minerals of chromium...
- and José
Feliciano Rodrigues. 2011.
Alteration Mechanism of
Chromite in
Podiform Chromitites from two
Metamorphosed Ophiolitic Complexes:
Golyamo Kamenyane...
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contains a
basal 2m
thick magnetite zone (containing >70% magnetite) and
podiform,
lenticular magnetite horizons above it,
which is of prin****l economic...
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remobilised (up to 600 m into
felsic footwall rocks) but are
hosted in
folded podiform ad****ulate to meso****ulate
bodies which lack
typical spinifex flow-top...
