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Research Articles

Tools used in mineral exploration for measuring the conductivity and the resistivity in drillholes and on drill core: observations on their range of sensitivity

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Pages 315-322 | Received 14 Aug 2014, Accepted 28 Jun 2015, Published online: 06 Dec 2018

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