Breccias in the lower part of the Mississippian Windsor Group and their relation to Zn-Pb mineralization: A summary

Economic Geology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 734-745

  Lavoie, Denis ^a   Sangster, D F ^a   Savard, Martine M ^a   Fallara, Francine ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE METAL; BRECCIA; MINERALIZATION; VISEAN;

CANADA;

EID: 0032463915     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.93.6.734     Document Type: Article

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