Metallogenic Fingerprints of the Congo Shield with Predictions for Mineral Endowment Beneath the Congo Basin - Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin

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Acknowledgments We are grateful to Bastien Linol for help with

Fig. 19.1 , and Fritz Agterberg and Mike de Wit for critical comments

on this MS. The research of both authors was partly supported through

different grants by the National Research Foundation of South Africa

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