Glendinning deposit - An example of turbidite-hosted arsenic-antimony-gold mineralization in the Southern Uplands, Scotland

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

Volumn 106, Issue MAY-AUG, 1997, Pages

  Duller, P R ^a   Gallagher, M J ^c   Hall, A J ^b   Russell, M J ^b  

^a Amerada Hess Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Glasgow ^*

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