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Original Paper

Jan Pašava, Federica Zaccarini, Thomas Aiglsperger , Anna Vymazalová

Platinum-group elements (PGE) and their principal carriers in metal-rich black shales: an overview with a new data from Mo-Ni-PGE black shales (Zunyi region, Guizhou Province, south China)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 58 (2013), issue 3, 209 - 216

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.147

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