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During the 1930s, the Portuguese dictatorship known as Estado Novo was determined the country should become industrialized, and one of the favoured economic sectors was mining. Therefore, the Service for Mining Prospecting was created in 1939, a public institution which was in charge of surveying and researching mineral resources. It was in this context that in 1946 Georges Zbyszewski (1909–1999),...