Mineralogy, petrography, geochemistry and genesis of the Paleoproterozoic Birimian manganese-formation of Nsuta/Ghana

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 297-311

  Mucke A ^a   Dzigbodi Adjimah, K ^b   Annor, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MANGANESE; MINERALIZATION; PETROGRAPHY;

GHANA;

EID: 0033104668     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050205     Document Type: Article

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