Compositional study of spinels from Wajrakarur Pipe-10 (Anumpalle), Ananthapur district and its significance in diamond prospectivity

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 677-682

  Mukherjee, Abhijeet ^a   Rao, K S ^a   Babu, E V S S K ^b   Roy, Gautam ^c  

^a Natl Mineral Development Corp   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Andhra Pradesh; Diamond; Geochemistry; Kimberlites; Mineral Chemistry; Spinel

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; DIAMOND; GEOCHEMISTRY; KIMBERLITE; SPINEL;

INDIA;

EID: 0032458737     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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