The St. Lawrence deposit, Seeley's Bay, SE Ontario - A major wollastonite skarn in the Frontenac Terrane

CIM Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 1070, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Grammatikopoulos, Tassos A ^a   Clark, Alan H ^b   Vasily, Bob ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Canadian Wollastonite   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beneficiation; Industrial minerals; Skarn; St. Lawrence deposit; Wollastonite

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DRILLING; QUARTZ DEPOSITS; TITANATE MINERALS;

WOLLASTONITE SKARNS;

SCALE (DEPOSITS);

INDUSTRIAL MINERAL; MINERAL DEPOSIT; SKARN; WOLLASTONITE;

CANADA;

EID: 0037607549     PISSN: 03170926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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