The 190Pt–186Os decay system applied to dating platinum-group element mineralization of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
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a Northern Centre for Isotopic and Elemental Tracing, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK b Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Stilleweg 2, 30655, Hannover, Germany c Laboratoire de Minéralogie et Cosmochimie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and CNRS (UMR 7202), 61 rue Buffon, Paris 75005, France d Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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