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Record 1 2005-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
CONT

Another controversial rock-type is the "Sudbury Breccia". This consists of zones ... of brecciated country rocks which are sometimes hosts for the orebodies.

CONT

The structural backbone of the deposit is the northeasterly trending Bear Bay Shear, a shear zone, 1.5 to 7.0 metres wide, filled with brecciated rock, clay, hematitic and chloritic material and metallic mineral assemblages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Le minerai d'aluminium est la bauxite, roche cohérente [...], granuleuse, pisolithique ou même bréchoïde à la suite de tassements.

Spanish

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