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Original Paper

Melissa O. Anderson, David R. Lentz, Chris R.M. McFarlane, Hendrik Falck

A geological, geochemical and textural study of an LCT pegmatite: implications for the magmatic versus metasomatic origin of Nb-Ta mineralization in the Moose II pegmatite, Northwest Territories, Canada

Journal of Geosciences, volume 58 (2013), issue 4, 299 - 320

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.149

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