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Strategic mineral resources of the Russian Arctic

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Original Russian Text © N.S. Bortnikov, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, Nos. 5–6, pp. 431–437.

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Bortnikov, N.S. Strategic mineral resources of the Russian Arctic. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 223–228 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615030065

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