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DISSEMINATED SULPHIDE [1 record]

Record 1 2006-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
  • Geochemistry
  • Economic Geology
DEF

Sulfide scattered as specks and veinlets through rocks and constituting not over 20 percent of the total rock volume.

CONT

From the base upwards, massive sulphide gives way through disseminated sulphides in a silicate gangue to lightly mineralized and then barren rock ...

Key term(s)
  • dissemination of sulfide

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
  • Géochimie
  • Géologie économique
CONT

Les sulfures sont soit massifs, soit disséminés. [...] La chromite est mieux représentée dans les sulfures massifs que dans les disséminés.

Spanish

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