Mineral Composition and Osmium Isotopes of PGE Mineralization of Eastern Witwatersrand (South Africa)

Geology of Ore Deposits

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 253-266

  Malitch, K N ^a   Kostoyanov, A I ^a   Merkle, R K W ^b  

^a A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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