Mineralogical Magazine; April 2004; v. 68; no. 2;
p. 353-368; DOI: 10.1180/0026461046820192
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FIG. 5. Compositions of laurite plotted on the Ru-Ir-Os ternary. The compositions of the laurite studied (open circles for Pontyn samples, solid circles for Tambanio samples) are compared with those from the Bushveld layered igneous complex (South Africa) and Bird River Complex (Canada). The compositional fields of laurite from ophiolitic ultramafic complexes are shown on the right side of the ternary. They include Oman, Othrys (Greece), Skyros (Greece) and Vourinos (Greece), Ray-lz (Polar Ural, Russia), and Rhodope (Bulgaria). Data sources: Bird River (Cabri and Laflamme, 1988; Ohnenstetter et al., 1986), Bushveld (Schwellnus et al., 1976; Kingston and El-Dosuky, 1982), Oman (Ahmed and Arai, 2003); Othrys (Garuti et al., 1999b), Ray-Iz (Garuti et al., 1999a), Vourinos (Garuti and Zaccarini, 1997), Skyros (Tarkian et al., 1992), and Rhodope (Tarkian et al., 1991).
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