The West Jordan deposit, a newly-discovered type 2 dunite-hosted nickel sulphide system in the northern Agnew–Wiluna belt, Western Australia

Ore Geology Reviews - Tập 51 - Trang 79-92 - 2013
Ben A. Grguric1,2, Zoran Seat1, Andrei A. Karpuzov3, Oleg N. Simonov3
1Exploration Department, Norilsk Nickel Australia, P.O. Box 906, West Perth, WA 6872, Australia
2Centre for Exploration Targeting, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
3Exploration Department, Norilsk Nickel Russia, Staropetrovsky, 11/2 Moscow, Russia

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