Journal of Geological Society of India (Online archive from Vol 1 to Vol 78)

R. Dhana Raju ¹, S. Vijayalakshmi ², T. R. Mahalingam ², C. R. M. Rao ³, Madhuparna Roy ⁴

Affiliations
1 Atomic Minerals Division, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Bangalore - 560 072, IN
2 Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Dept. of Atomic Energy, Kalpakkam - 603 102, IN
3 Chemical Laboratory, Geological Survey of India, Madras - 600 032, IN
4 Atomic Minerals Division, Dept. of Atomic Energy, New Delhi - 110066, IN

Abstract

Platinum Group Elemental (PGEs-Pt, Ir, Pd, Rh and Ru) contents, determined by ICP-MS, are reported in a rare REE-Th-Zr-Ti-rich ultrabasic tremolite-actinolite rock from Vattalakki, Kerala. Data on PGE, together with unusually high contents of REE, Th, Zr and Ti at percent level, indicate this rock as 'anomalous'.

Keywords

Economic Geology, PGE, REE-Rich Metaultramafite, Kerala.

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