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Original paper

Jakub Plášil, Jan Hloušek, Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Milan Novák, Jiří Čejka, Ladislav Lapčák

Svornostite, K₂Mg[(UO₂)(SO₄)₂]₂∙8H₂O, a new uranyl sulfate mineral from Jáchymov, Czech Republic

Journal of Geosciences, volume 60 (2015), issue 2, 113 - 121

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.192

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