Geological controls on gold grade distribution in Chidlaw Link Zone, Gwynfynydd mine, Dolgellau, North Wales

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 105, Issue SEPT/DEC, 1996, Pages

  Dominy, Simon C ^a   Phelps, Roland F G ^b   Camm, G Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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