General considerations of sampling and assaying in a coarse gold environment

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 109, Issue SEPT-DEC, 2000, Pages 145-167

  Dominy, S C ^a   Annels, A E ^a   Johansen, G F ^a   Cuffley, B W ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; ORE GRADE; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING;

EID: 0034261539     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/aes.2000.109.3.145     Document Type: Article

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