Morphology and chemistry of placer gold grains - indicators of the origin of the placers: An example from the East Sudetic Foreland, Poland

Acta Geologica Polonica

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 563-576

  Wierchowiec, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; East Sudety Mts.; Morphology; Origin; Placer gold; Poland; Surface textures

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; PLACER DEPOSIT; PLIOCENE;

POLAND;

EID: 0142063048     PISSN: 00015709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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