From Mount Goldsworthy to Area C - Reflections on forty years of iron ore exploration in the Pilbara

Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-55

  Kneeshaw, Mal ^a   Kepert, D A ^a   Tehnas, I J ^a   Pudovskis, M A ^a  

^a BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Iron ore exploration; Pilbara

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; IRON ORES; MINING;

ECLECTIC MIX; EXPLORATIONS;

METALLURGY;

IRON ORE; MINERAL EXPLORATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1142281734     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174503225011207     Document Type: Article

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