The distribution and recovery of gold in the Golden Sunlight gold-silver telluride deposit, Montana, U.S.A.

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-42

  Spry, P G ^a   Thieben, S E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckhornite; Gold tellurides; Golden Sunlight deposit; Montana

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MINERALIZATION; TELLURIDE;

GOLDEN SUNLIGHT; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034038218     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/002646100549111     Document Type: Article

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