Hg-Tl-bearing manganese oxide from Conta História manganese deposit, Quadrilátero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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

Volumn 111, Issue MAY/AUGUST, 2002, Pages

  Cabral, A R ^a   Lehmann, B ^a   Sattler, C D ^a   Pires, F R M ^b   Kaneko, K ^c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c VALE S A   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IRON; MANGANESE OXIDE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINERALIZATION; STRONTIUM; THALLIUM;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS STATE; QUADRILATERO FERRIFERO;

EID: 0036591082     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/aes.2002.111.2.123     Document Type: Article

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