Financial impact of resource/reserve uncertainty

Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 293-301

  Morley, C ^b   Snowden, V ^b   Day, D ^a  

^a Snowden Mining Industry Consultants   (Australia)

^b NONE

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