Genesis and setting of the intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu mineralization at Las Aguilas, San Luis Province, Argentina: Implications for exploration of an Ordovician Arc

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 1-20

  Skirrow, R G ^a   Sims, J P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLOGENESIS; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORDOVICIAN; ORE DEPOSIT;

ARGENTINA; SAN LUIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0742322810     PISSN: 09641823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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