A Sb ± Au mineralizing peak at 360 Ma in the Variscan belt

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Issue		BSGF - Earth Sci. Bull. Volume 190, 2019


Article Number		4
Number of page(s)		12
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2019004
Published online		05 March 2019

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