Stratigraphic setting of the metalliferous Rosh Pinah Formation and the Spitzkop and Koivib Suites in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, southwestern Namibia

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-34

  Alchin, Dennis J ^a   Frimmel, Hef E ^b   Jacobs, Louis E ^a  

^a Kumba Resources   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NAMIBIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

ADAMASTOR;

EID: 23344441208     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/108.1.19     Document Type: Article

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