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Original Paper

Tomáš Klimko, Bronislava Lalinská, Juraj Majzlan, Martin Chovan, Gabriela Kučerová, Christin Paul

Chemical composition of weathering products in neutral and acidic mine tailings from stibnite exploitation in Slovakia

Journal of Geosciences, volume 56 (2011), issue 3, 327 - 340

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.104

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