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This chapter is intended as a reference and is therefore kept short. It may be used as an alternative way of accessing the book by listing important application areas and ore minerals and referring to respective text passages in the following chapters.

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    Florian Neukirchen

  2. Marxen, Germany

    Dr. Gunnar Ries

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Neukirchen, F., Ries, G. (2020). The World of Metals. In: The World of Mineral Deposits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34346-0_2

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