Potential for epithermal gold mineralization in east and central Sutherland, Scotland: Indications from River Brora headwaters

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

Volumn 106, Issue JAN/APR, 1997, Pages

  Crummy, J ^a   Hall, A J ^b   Haszeldine, R S ^a   Anderson, I K ^a  

^a BIMAK AD ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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