The Cobalt mining district: Silver sources, transport and deposition

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 81-90

  Marshall, Dan ^a   Watkinson, David H ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORE DEPOSIT; SILVER;

CANADA; COBALT; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 0742322696     PISSN: 09641823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/0090081     Document Type: Article

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