Deposit models and their application inmineral resource assessments

US Geological Survey Circular

Volumn , Issue 1294, 2007, Pages 71-78

  Singer, Donald A ^a   Berger, Vladimir I ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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