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This book strives to be quantitative. It is based on data from mineral deposits, gathered over a period of 40 years and assembled in an unpublished database called GIANTDEP, in my books (Laznicka, 1985a, 1993, 2004) and in Data Metallogenica (Epilogue). The data have limitations, they change (improve) with time, and are only as good as their original sources. Readers familiar with a large volume of literature that quotes numerical data from mineral deposits are aware about the constant change and discrepancies, even in a single multi-authored publication! Data used in this book have been reconciled and edited in a uniform way so that discrepancies have been “smoothed”, but not eliminated.
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Laznicka, P. (2010). Data on metallic deposits and magnitude categories: the giant and world class deposits. In: Giant Metallic Deposits. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12405-1_2
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