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Mineral Exploration Financing — we need a new model
Western Mining Services Paper (April, 2016)
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The Mineral System Concept: The Key to Exploration Targeting (abstract)
McCuaig, T.C. and Hronsky, Jon M. A. (2014)
Society of Economic Geologists, Special Publication 18, pp. 153–175
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The Discovery of the Morelos Skarn-Hosted Gold and Gold-Copper-Silver Deposits, Guerrero State, Mexico
Suchomel, B.J., Bussey, S.D., Margeson, G.B., Kakarieka, A., and Puentes, C. (2013)
NewGenGold Conference Proceedings, Perth, pp.209-224
A unified model for gold mineralisation in accretionary orogens and implications for regional-scale exploration targeting methods
Hronsky, Jon M. A., Groves, David I., Loucks, Robert R. and Begg, Graham C. (2012)
Mineralium Deposita (In Press, 2012) and published in Mineralium Deposita, vol. 47, no. 1
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Self‐organized critical systems and ore formation: The key to spatial targeting?
Hronsky, Jon M.A. (2011)
Society of Economic Geologists Newsletter, v. 84, at pp. 14‐16
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Skarn, porphyry, vein, and replacement mineralization in the Toqui District, Southern Chile (abstract)
Bussey, S.D., Kakarieka, A., and Meinert, L.D. (2010)
Society of Economic Geologists, Special Publication 15, pp. 399-420
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The exploration search space concept: key to a successful exploration strategy
Hronsky, J.M.A. (2009)
Centre for Exploration Targeting (Perth), Quarterly Newsletter No. 8, pp. 14‐15
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Science of targeting: Definition, strategies, targeting and performance measurement
Hronsky, J.M.A and Groves, D.I., 2008
Published as Science of targeting: Definition, strategies, targeting and performance measurement in Australian Journal of Earth Science, v. 55, pp. 3‐12
The Case for a Greenfields Renaissance
Hronsky, Jon M.A.; Suchomel, B. J.; and Welborn, J.F. (2008)
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