Role of lithogeochemistry in reassessment of the geological setting of Parys Mountain polymetallic sulphide deposit, Anglesey, Wales

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

Volumn 106, Issue MAY-AUG, 1997, Pages

  Tennant, S C ^a   Steed, G M ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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