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LEAD-ZINC PROVINCE [1 record]

Record 1 1996-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Geology
  • Lead, Zinc, Thallium and Cadmium Mining
CONT

Among the examples of metallogenic provinces in North America are the gold province on the Canadian Shield ...; the lead-zinc province of the Mississippi Valley, which is the world's largest producer of those metals; the copper province of the southwestern United States....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie économique
  • Plomb, zinc, thallium et cadmium (Mines)
CONT

[...] il faudrait admettre que les solutions hydrothermales n'auraient apporté que fort peu de cuivre, et ceci dans tous les grands districts ou provinces plombo-zincifères du monde, comme la Vallée du Mississippi [...]

CONT

L'Allemagne a une petite province à argent-cobalt, dans l'Erzgebirge [...] ainsi qu'une province à plomb-zinc dans le Harz.

Spanish

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