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Original paper

Anthony R. Kampf, Jiří Sejkora, Thomas Witzke, Jakub Plášil, Jiří Čejka, Barbara P. Nash, Joe Marty

Rietveldite, Fe(UO₂)(SO₄)₂(H₂O)₅, a new uranyl sulfate mineral from Giveaway-Simplot mine (Utah, USA), Willi Agatz mine (Saxony, Germany) and Jáchymov (Czech Republic)

Journal of Geosciences, volume 62 (2017), issue 2, 107 - 120

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.236

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