Synsedimentary mineralization at Ballynoe barite deposit, near Silvermines, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

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

Volumn 107, Issue JAN-APR, 1998, Pages

  Mullane, M M ^a   Kinnaird, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Vanguard   (United Kingdom)

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