Applications of the Mössbauer effect at the 161 Dy and "Fe nuclei to study heavy rare earth -transition metal compounds are presented. Magnetic hyperfine fields at dysprosium and iron nuclei observed in the Dyu (M-M)v intermetallics (u/v = 2/17, 6/23, 1/3, and 1/2; M-M = Mn-Fe, Fe-Co, and Co-Ni), magnetic moments and magnetic ordering temperatures are discussed. The magnetic hyperfine field at iron nuclei and the field at dysprosium nuclei treated as functions of a number of 3d electrons form two different systems of the Slater-Pauling curves. The magnetic ordering temperatures treated as functions of the number of 3d electrons also form the u/v system of curves. Considermg the magnetic data and the magnetic hyperfine fields it can be concluded that intermetallics can be treated as three-subsystem ferrimagnets. Consequently, a coexistence between the 4f, 5d, and 3d magnetism in the rare earth -transition metal compounds can be qualitatively explained.