Exploration and origin of stratigraphically controlled platinum-group element mineralization in crustal-sequence ultramafics, Shetland ophiolite complex

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

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  Lord, R A ^a   Prichard, H M ^b  

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^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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