Microchemical characterization of alluvial gold from Scotland

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

Volumn 106, Issue MAY-AUG, 1997, Pages

  Leake, R C ^a   Chapman, R J ^a   Bland, D J ^a   Condliffe, E ^b   Styles, M T ^a  

^a University of Leeds ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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