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LOW-SULPHIDATION DEPOSIT [2 records]

Record 1 2006-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
  • Geochemistry

French

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

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
OBS

Adularia-sericite-subtype deposits have also been named "low sulphur" (Bonham, 1988), or "low sulphidation" (Hedenquist, 1987). [This] terminology (not to be confused with ... low sulphide contents) can be misleading ...

Key term(s)
  • low-sulfidation deposit
  • low-sulfur deposit

French

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

Les gîtes du sous-type à adulaire-séricite ont aussi été qualifiés de «gîtes à faible teneur en soufre» (Bonham, 1988), ou «gîtes à faible degré de sulfuration» (Hedenquist, 1987). [Cette] terminologie [...] (qu'il ne faut pas confondre avec faible [...] concentration de sulfures) [est] déroutante [...]

Spanish

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