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Sillitoe, R.H., Perelló, J., Creaser, R.A. et al. Reply to discussions of “Age of the Zambian Copperbelt” by Hitzman and Broughton and Muchez et al.. Miner Deposita 52, 1277–1281 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-017-0769-x

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