Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original paper

Travis A. Olds, Christopher Emproto, Anthony R. Kampf, Chi Ma, Joe Marty

Szilagyiite, a new uranyl carbonate-selenite mineral related to schröckingerite from the Pickett Corral mine, Montrose County, Colorado, USA

Journal of Geosciences, volume 70 (2025), issue 3, 177 - 188

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.0049.25

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