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Record 1 1996-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copper Mining
  • Economic Geology
CONT

Among the examples of metallogenic provinces in North America are the gold province on the Canadian Shield ...; the lead-zinc province of the Mississippi Valley ...; the copper province of the southwestern United States and adjacent parts of Mexico, which at one time produced about one-third of the world's copper; ....

CONT

In South America, the copper province extending northward from Chile into Peru provides a considerable portion of the world's copper.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines de cuivre
  • Géologie économique
OBS

Par analogie avec «province aurifère» et «province stannifère» (voir fiches).

Key term(s)
  • province à cuivre

Spanish

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