Fifty-year trends in minerals discovery - Commodity and ore-type targets

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Blain, Chris ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORE DEPOSIT; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0742287874     PISSN: 09641823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/0090001     Document Type: Article

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