Alterations in the basement fracture zones and their bearing on uranium mineralisation in southwestern environs of the cuddapah basin, Andhra Pradesh, India

Exploration and Research for Atomic Minerals

Volumn 11, Issue , 1998, Pages 13-24

  Zakaulla, S ^a   Rai, A K ^a   Tripathi, B K ^a   Thirupathi, P V ^a   Umamaheshwar, K ^a   Dhana Raju, R ^a  

^a ATOMIC MINERALS DIRECTORATE FOR EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

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