Mapping of prospectivity and estimation of number of undiscovered prospects for lode gold, southwestern Ashanti Belt, Ghana

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Emmanuel John M. Carranza1, E.A. Owusu1, Martin Hale2,3
1International Institute for Geo‐Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) , Enschede, The Netherlands
2Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
3International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands

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