Geology and hydrothermal development of Bostraze-Balleswidden kaolin deposit, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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

Volumn 107, Issue SEPT-DEC, 1998, Pages

  Dominy, S C ^a   Camm, G S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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