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GOLD OCCURRENCE [5 records]

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Record 1 2018-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gold and Silver Mining
DEF

A person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines d'or et d'argent

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemical Prospecting
  • Geological Research and Exploration
  • Various Metal Ores
DEF

In geology, the existence or presence of anything or phenomenon in any special position, or in any specific relation to other objects or phenomena.

CONT

The occurrence of gold in a vein.

CONT

In Quebec and Ontario placer deposits and occurrences are found in both recent and interglacial stream gravel and glacial drift ...

CONT

Lamproites are characterized by the occurrence of at least one of the following: olivine, leucite, richterite, diopside, and sanidine ...

PHR

Copper, gold, mineral occurrence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prospection géochimique
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
CONT

[...] il a dû y avoir des périodes d'émission de venues métallifères.

CONT

[...] la venue des granitoïdes hercyniens.

OBS

Le mot «occurrence», fréquemment utilisé en anglais, peut facilement entrer dans l'usage français, et désignera l'existence, en un lieu considéré, de tel ou tel minéral (ou roche); par exemple une occurrence de cassitérite.

OBS

indice : Source : B. Couture, Commission géologique du Canada.

PHR

Présence de minéraux.

PHR

Venue de gaz naturel.

PHR

Occurrence minérale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

a placer formed by the action of running water, as in a stream channel or alluvial fan.

CONT

placer: A surficial mineral deposit formed by mechanical concentration of mineral particles from weathered debris. The common types are beach placers and alluvial placers.

CONT

Stream and beach placers are widespread in occurrence and include the famous gold placers of the world, as well as deposits of magnetite, ilmenite chromite, wolframite, scheelite, cassiterite, rutile, zircon, monazite, and garnet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
CONT

Dans nos régions, spécialement celles qui ont un certain relief [...] il faut s'attendre à trouver surtout des placers alluviaux [...] dont la source première est le roc mais aussi le till et les sédiments fluvio-glaciaires soumis à l'érosion actuelle.

CONT

Les placers de plus grand intérêt sont les placers alluvionnaires, c'est-à-dire ceux qui sont formés par le courant des cours d'eau. Ils comprennent de célèbres gisements aurifères et des gisements de platine, de pierres précieuses, de magnétite, d'ilménite, de rutile, de monazite, de cassitérite [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minerales varios (Minas metálicas)
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
CONT

[...] el placer aluvial consiste en arenas transportadas por las aguas corrientes y luego abandonadas por éstas selectivamente, según las dimensiones y densidad de los granos.

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Record 4 2006-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
CONT

Modes of occurrence and shapes and sizes of uraninite grains... and of some of the gold... and pyrite are consistent... with a placer origin...

French

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

Les modes d'occurrence, la forme et la taille des grains d'uraninite [...] et de certains grains d'or [...] et de pyrite sont [...] conformes à une origine placérienne [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gold and Silver Mining
CONT

Occurrence of gold in a region.

OBS

occurrence : The existence or presence of any phenomenon in any specific relation to other objects or phenomena, as the occurrence of gold in a vein.

French

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

Venues aurifères dans une région.

CONT

La ceinture du Restigouche [...] contient de la roche semblable à la ceinture de la Gaspésie, où se trouvent plusieurs gîtes de porphyre et de skarn en plus de nombreuses venues aurifères.

Spanish

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