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Original Paper

Radek Škoda, Milan Novák, Jaroslav Cícha

Uranium-niobium-rich alteration products after “písekite”, an intimate mixture of Y,REE,Nb,Ta,Ti-oxide minerals from the Obrázek I pegmatite, Písek, Czech Republic

Journal of Geosciences, volume 56 (2011), issue 3, 317 - 325

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