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Original Paper

Jaroslav Aichler, Jan Malec, Josef Večeřa, Pavel Hanžl, David Buriánek, Tamara Sidorinová, Zdeněk Táborský, Khasbar Bolormaa, Dolgor Byambasuren

Prospection for gold and new occurrences of gold-bearing mineralization in the eastern Mongolian Altay

Journal of Geosciences, volume 53 (2008), issue 2, 123 - 138

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.025

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