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    Gossan (eiserner hut or eisenhut) is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral...
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  • can be identified at various depths. From the surface down they are the gossan cap, leached zone, oxidized zone, water table, enriched zone (supergene...
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    underground mining operations: Grasberg Block Cave, Deep Mill Level Zone and Big Gossan. The 2023 production was 680,000 tonnes (1,500,000,000 lb) of copper, 52...
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  • quartz Ganister – Hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite Gossan – Intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock Hyaloclastite – Volcaniclastic...
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  • Eisenhut may refer to: Gossan or iron hat, the oxidized outcrop of sulfide ore deposits Eisenhut (mountain), an Austrian mountain A term for a German kettle...
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    promotion and enhancement of geotourism. Gossan in Rajpura-Dariba Mineralised belt nearby, consisting of gossan, has been declared the National Geological...
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    Proprietary Company Limited was organized. Charles Rasp discovered the gossan or weathered sulfide outcrop of massive lead-zinc sulfides on a feature...
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    the original on 28 June 2006. Retrieved 25 September 2010. "gossan – definition of gossan by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia"....
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    also used in Sweden. The same process, at geological speed, results in the gossan limonite ores. The importance attached to low-sulfur iron is demonstrated...
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    Iron caps or gossans of siliceous iron oxide typically form as the result of intensive oxidation of sulfide ore deposits. These gossans were used by prospectors...
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    Iodargyrite Iodargyrite on gossan, Broken Hill Ore Deposit, New South Wales, Australia. General Category Halide minerals Formula (repeating unit) AgI IMA...
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    Calomel Amber calomel crystals and bright yellow terlinguaite on gossan matrix, 3 mm. across General Category Halide mineral Formula (repeating unit) (Hg2)2+Cl2...
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  • Iron cap may refer to: Gossan - geological formation Iron Dome - missile defense system Iron-cap princes (铁帽子王) noble rank of the Aisin Gioro, founders...
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  • workers. The Freeport geological team claimed that the collapse at the Big Gossan tunnel was caused by erosion of the ceiling, brought about by the continuous...
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  • used during the Gossan Phase. The overall surface mine area will encompass approximately 26 ha. This includes portions of the Gossan Surface Mine which...
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    the village was named Gbèkèkro, so named after the leader of the Baoulé, Gossan Kwa Gbeke and kro meaning town or settlement of. Bouaké was established...
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    by vivianite. Some authors say that it is particularly associated with gossan, but this is disputed by Petrov. Associated minerals include metavivianite...
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  • Cooleman Ridge Crace Dunlop Grassland Farrer Ridge Gigerline Goorooyarroo Gossan Hill Gungaderra Grassland Isaacs Ridge Jarramlee Grassland Reserve Jerrabomberra...
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    the state's fourth-oldest prison still in operation, is located at 109 Gossan Street. It is important to the Far West region, as it allows for imprisonment...
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    cave floors, and on the bottom of lakes and small creeks. The boxworks or gossan resulting from the oxidation of sulfide ore deposits is formed of goethite...
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    summit to depths of 1,150 m (3,770 ft). The conical hill has a reddish-brown gossan cap of iron-oxides and quartz, with grayish-blue altered dacite and many...
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    accompanied by other secondary minerals which form the so-called iron cap or gossan. Hemimorphite is an important ore of zinc and contains up to 54.2% of the...
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    1126/science.1231160. PMID 23413352. S2CID 29815601. Ott, C. D.; O'Connor, E. P.; Gossan, S. E.; Abdikamalov, E.; Gamma, U. C. T.; Drasco, S. (2012). "Core-Collapse...
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  • was discovered in 1955 and contains the largest gossan zone in the BMC. From 1989 to 1992 the gossan zone was processed for gold and silver. In 1992 copper...
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    quartz-lined cavities, retaining the shape of the dissolved ore minerals, in gossans. In classical geology or mineralogy these mineral casts would not be called...
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    confused with limonite or goethite with which it commonly occurs in the gossan (oxidized cap over an ore body). Jarosite is an iron analogue of the potassium...
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    tabular, reddish-brown wulfenite crystals fills the vug in the geode-like gossan matrix on this specimen Wulfenite specimen from the Mina Ojuela, Mapimi...
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  • gold tailings on the transport and fate of mercury and other metals in Gossan Creek: Murray Brook mine, New Brunswick, Canada". Applied Geochemistry....
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    Loellingite Sharp, lustrous loellingite (and/or arsenopyrite) crystals to 4 mm on gossan matrix. Locality: Broken Hill Ore Deposit, New South Wales, Australia. Size:...
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  • brownish, or reddish-brown, often glassy and translucent. It may be a gossan, the result of weathering and oxidation of sulfide ores. The International...
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