Strata-bound pyritic copper mineralization in a fore-arc setting in northwestern India - A Proterozoic Besshi-type deposit

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

Volumn 106, Issue JAN/APR, 1997, Pages

  Mukherjee, A D ^a   Bhattacharya, H N ^a,b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Durgapur Government College   (India)

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