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METAL DEPOSIT [1 record]

Record 1 2001-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
  • Geochemistry
  • Economic Geology
CONT

It has long been recognized that specific regions of the world possess a notable concentration of deposits of a certain metal or metals, these regions are known as metallogenic provinces. Such provinces can be delineated by reference to a single metal ... or to several metals or metal associations. In the latter case, the metallogenic province may show a zonal distribution of the various metallic deposits.

CONT

... in the forties and fifties much emphasis was still placed on the magmatic-hydrothermal theory for the origin of the majority of metallic deposits.

CONT

In supergene sulphide enrichment the minerals of economic interest are carried down into hypogene (primary) ore where they are precipitated with a resultant increase in metal content, whereas in the case of iron and manganese ores it is chiefly the gangue material that is mobilized and carried away to leave behind a purer metal deposit.

French

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

La majeure partie des hydroxydes se trouve dans les zones d'oxydation des gîtes métalliques et dans les roches altérées [...] Oxydes et hydroxydes sont les principaux minerais de fer, chrome, manganèse, uranium, étain, aluminium, niobium, tantale.

Spanish

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