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SHEET-LIKE CONFORMABLE OREBODY [1 record]

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Record 1 2007-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
CONT

The disseminated ores consist of droplets, schlieren, and fine sulphide veinlets dispersed through picritic, taxitic, and contact gabbro-dolerite in the lower portions of the intrusions, and form sheet-like conformable orebodies that in some cases exceed 40 m in thickness.

Key term(s)
  • sheetlike conformable orebody

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
CONT

La minéralisation disséminée consiste en gouttelettes, schlierens et fins filonnets de sulfures dispersés dans les unités de gabbro-dolérite picritique, de gabbro-dolérite taxitique et de gabbro-dolérite de contact de la partie inférieure des intrusions; cette minéralisation disséminée forme des corps minéralisés concordants en forme de nappe dont l'épaisseur dépasse parfois 40 m.

Spanish

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