Threading the eye of the needle: Lessons from the search for another Voisey's Bay in Labrador, Canada

Economic Geology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 725-748

  Kerr, Andrew ^a   Ryan, Bruce ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; COPPER; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALIZATION; NICKEL;

CANADA;

EID: 0033876343     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.95.4.725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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