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Volume 8, No. 2

Quantitative assessment of the success of geochemical exploration techniques using minimum probability methods
C. R. Stanley & R. R. P. Noble      115

Missed hits or near misses: determining how many samples are necessary to confidently detect nugget-borne mineralization
C. R. Stanley      129

Niobium in boreal stream waters and brackish-water sediments
M. E. Åström, P. Petola, J. J. Virtasalo, A. T. Kotilainen & R. Salminen      139

Variation in geochemical background levels for Jamaican soils
R. G. Garrett, G. C. Lalor, J. Preston & M. K. Vutchkov      149

Mineral hosts for gold and trace metals in regolith at Boddington gold deposit and Scuddles massive copper–zinc sulphide deposit, Western Australia: an LA-ICP-MS study
M. Le Gleuher, R. R. Anand, R. A. Eggleton & N. Radford        157

Thompson-Howarth error analysis: unbiased alternatives to the large sample method for assessing non-normally distributed measurement error in geochemical samples
C. R. Stanley & D. Lawie      173

Progress in the collection of ‘Geogas’ in China
M. Wang, Y. Gao & Y. Liu      183

Arsenic distribution in mesquite (Prosopis laevigata) and huizache (Acacia farnesiana) in the Zimapán mining area, Mexico
M. A. Armienta, L. K. Ongley, R. Rodríguez, O. Cruz, H. Mango & G. Villaseñor      191

Book review