Advanced argillic lithocaps in the Bolivian tin-silver belt

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 539-546

  Sillitoe, R H ^a   Steele, G B ^b   Thompson, J F H ^c,d   Lang, J R ^c  

^a Barrio Industrial ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Barrio Industrial   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Teck Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; SILVER; TIN;

BOLIVIA;

EID: 0032452265     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050170     Document Type: Article

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