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TIN-SILVER PROVINCE [1 record]

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Record 1 1996-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Geology
  • Gold and Silver Mining
  • Tin Mining
OBS

By analogy with "silver-lead province."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie économique
  • Mines d'or et d'argent
  • Mines d'étain
CONT

[...] de l'autre côté du Pacifique, nous retrouvons une province essentiellement tungstifère (particulièrement dépourvue d'étain) dans l'Ouest des U.S.A. [...] et une province stanno-argentifère en Amérique du Sud, surtout en Bolivie [...]

Spanish

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