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Original paper

Pavel Škácha, Jiří Sejkora, Jakub Plášil, Emil Makovicky

Pošepnýite, a new Hg-rich member of the tetrahedrite group from Příbram, Czech Republic

Journal of Geosciences, volume 65 (2020), issue 3, 173 - 186

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.308

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