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Preface: State of the art in mineral exploration
Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3Bcn-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Ramon Carbonell
Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3Bcn-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Solveig Pospiech
Institute for Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, Bremen, Germany
Liam A. Bullock
Geosciences Barcelona (Geo3Bcn-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Fernando Tornos
Instituto de Geociencias (IGEO, CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain
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