Where are porphyry copper deposits spatially localized? A case study in benguet province, Philippines

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-59

  Carranza, Emmanuel John M ^a   Hale, Martin ^b  

^a Mines and Geosciences Bureau   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Porphyry copper; Porphyry plutons; Predictive model validation; Spatial association; Strike slip fault discontinuities; Weights of evidence modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742295179     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014287720379     Document Type: Article

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