Spatial analysis techniques as successful mineral-potential mapping tools for orogenic gold deposits in the northern Fennoscandian shield, Finland

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 85-92

  Nykänen, Vesa ^a   Ojala, V Juhani ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Central Lapland; Finland; Fuzzy logic; Geographic Information System (GIS); Logistic regression; Mineral potential mapping; Orogenic gold; Prospectivity; Weights of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347265780     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11053-007-9046-5     Document Type: Article

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