Beach and inland heavy mineral sand investigations and deposits in india-An overview

Exploration and Research for Atomic Minerals

Volumn 13, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-21

  Ali, Mir Azam ^a   Krishnan, S ^a   Banerjee, D C ^a  

^a ATOMIC MINERALS DIRECTORATE FOR EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Beach placers; East and west coasts; Exploration; Heavy mineral sands; India; Inland placers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141887857     PISSN: 09709231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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