Quantitative mineral resource assessment of undiscovered PGE resources in Finland

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 270-287

  Rasilainen, K ^a   Eilu, P ^a   Halkoaho, T ^a   Iljina, M ^a   Karinen, T ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Finland; Layered intrusions; Platinum group; Proterozoic; Quantitative analysis; Resources

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; FINLAND; LAYERED INTRUSIONS; PLATINUM GROUP; PROTEROZOIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GALLIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; REEFS;

MINERAL RESOURCES;

LAYERED INTRUSION; MINERAL RESOURCE; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; PROTEROZOIC; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

FINLAND;

EID: 77957788243     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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