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SILVER VEIN [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gold and Silver Mining
CONT

Mineralogically, gangue minerals can be the dominant constituents as in auriferous quartz veins. ... Sulphides are most commonly the important metallic minerals but in the case of tin and uranium oxides are predominant. Here and there, native metals are abundant especially in gold- and silver-bearing veins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines d'or et d'argent
CONT

Les filons argentifères se localisent dans une zone restreinte où coïncident des conditions chimiques, physiques et structurales favorables, c'est-à-dire seulement lorsque des conditions particulières de température-pression affectent des roches fracturées (tension), riches en sulfures, dans l'auréole des intrusions précoces.

CONT

[...] filons argentifères : disséminations de minéraux argentifères dans les andésites (parfois porphyres argentifères associés); [...]

CONT

Filon argentifère riche en zinc

Spanish

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