Successful Use of Geoelectrical Surveys in Area 3 of the Gol-e-Gohar Iron Ore Mine, Iran

Mine Water and the Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 208-215

  Karimi Nasab, Saeed ^a   Hojat, Azadeh ^a   Kamkar Rouhani, Abolghasem ^b   Akbari Javar, Hossein ^c   Maknooni, Saeed ^c  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c Gol e Gohar Iron Ore Mine ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

Combined resistivity profiling; Gol e Gohar iron ore mine; Induced polarization; Iran; Resistivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052268553     PISSN: 10259112     EISSN: 16161068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10230-011-0135-7     Document Type: Article

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