Ni-Cr-PGE-minerals from the Katpal chromite mine, Sukinda chromite field, Orissa

Current Science

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 851-854

  Sunder Raju, P V ^a,b   Merkle, R K W ^a   Gräser, Peter ^a   Botha, Andre ^a   Mohanthy, S K ^c   Classen, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Orissa Mining Corporation   (India)

Author keywords

Katpal chromite mine; Mineralogy; Platinum group minerals

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348839858     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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