The MIDAS project (multiple data-set analysis for gold in Europe): Evidence from the British Caledonides

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

Volumn 107, Issue MAY-AUG, 1998, Pages

  Plant, J A ^a   Gunn, A G ^a   Rollin, K E ^a   Stone, P ^b   Morrissey, C J ^c   Norton, G E ^a   Simpson, P R ^a   Wiggans, G N ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b BGS   (United Kingdom)

^c Rio Tinto plc   (United Kingdom)

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