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Sasha Wilson1, Shaun L L Barker, Gregory M Dipple

  • 1Mineral Deposit Research Unit, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, The University of British Columbia, 6339 Stores Road, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada. siowilso@indiana.edu

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