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The results of the 35th Session of the International Geological Congress held in 2016 in Cape Town (South Africa) are discussed in this paper. The major scientific problems discussed at the most popular sections are considered. Among them are the early stages in the evolution of the Earth, studies of mineral resources worldwide, and the problems of the deep structure of the Earth, as well as modern fields of mineralogy.
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The Great Mineral Fields of Africa, Episodes (Spec. Iss. for 35 IGC, Cape Town, South Africa), 2016, vol. 39, no. 2.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Starostin, A.L. Perchuk, A.V. Bobrov, 2017, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 4: Geologiya, 2017, No. 3, pp. 3–6.
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Starostin, V.I., Perchuk, A.L. & Bobrov, A.V. The 35th Session of the International Geological Congress, Cape Town, 2016. Moscow Univ. Geol. Bull. 72, 231–234 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S014587521704007X
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S014587521704007X