Application of skarn deposit zonation models to mineral exploration

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 185-208

  Meinert, Lawrence D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; SKARN; ZONATION; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; SKARN DEPOSIT;

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