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Original Paper

Milan Kohút, Jakub Trubač, Ladislav Novotný, Lukáš Ackerman, Rastislav Demko, Boris Bartalský, Vojtěch Erban

Geology and Re-Os molybdenite geochronology of the Kurišková U-Mo deposit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 58 (2013), issue 3, 271 - 282

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.150

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