Geochemical associations and their spatial patterns of variation in soil data from the marrancos gold-tungsten deposit: A pilot analysis

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 319-340

  Reis, A P ^a   Silva, E F ^a   Sousa, A J ^b   Patinha, C ^a   Martins, E ^a   Guimaraes C ^b   Azevedo, M R ^a   Nogueira, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Gold; Principal component analysis; Spatial patterns of dispersion; Topsoil; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DEPOSITS; DISPERSIONS; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; INTERPOLATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOILS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS;

DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; INTERPOLATION METHOD; SPATIAL PATTERNS; THEORETICAL MODELING; TOPSOIL;

SOIL SURVEYS;

GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GOLD; MINERAL EXPLORATION; ORE DEPOSIT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPSOIL; TUNGSTEN;

BRAGA [PORTUGAL]; MARRANCOS; PORTUGAL;

EID: 72949089940     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/09-199     Document Type: Article

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