Alluvial gold: A pathfinder for a porphyry copper mineralization in South Um Monqul prospect, Eastern Desert, Egypt

Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 497-517

  Botros, Nagy S ^a,b  

^a Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority   (Egypt)

^b Mit Ghamr Code No 35611   (Egypt)

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