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GISEMENT FILON [1 record]

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Record 1 2005-02-14

English

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

Tin stockworks and greisen are much less important, most tin production coming from placer and vein deposits.

OBS

A vein and a lode are generally the same thing; the former being more scientific, the latter, a miner's name for it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
  • Géologie économique
DEF

Gisement dont les zones minéralisées sont constituées de filons.

CONT

[...] l'Asie ne produit que de petites quantités d'or car les plus beaux gisements alluviaux sont depuis longtemps épuisés et les gisements filoniens restent encore vierges.

Key term(s)
  • gîte en filon
  • gisement de type filonien

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minas metálicas
  • Geología económica
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