Discovery of a palladium-platinum-gold-mercury bitumen in the Boss mine, Clark County, Nevada

Economic Geology

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1163-1172

  Jedwab, Jacques ^a   Badaut, Denise ^b   Beaunier, Patricia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITUMEN; GOLD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033496944     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.94.7.1163     Document Type: Article

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