I will try to be concise. I know little about rocks, except from high school Earth science. On my property I have found dozens of quartz rocks such as this. Some smaller than my hand, others too big too shift ...Read more
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How does gold & silver occur in the Boulder Batholith in Montana? The Cretaceous-aged batholith is 50 miles long and 25 miles wide and is exposed from Butte to Helena. There are numerous digs for gold, silver and ...Read more
Mineral processing is the art and technology of treating ores from the mining areas in order to separate the valuable minerals from the waste rock. It includes processes to provide a more concentrated material for the procedures of the following ...Read more
Hydrothermal mineral deposits are those in which hot water serves as a concentrating, transporting, and depositing agent. They are the most numerous of all classes of deposit. Hydrothermal deposits are never formed from pure water, because pure water is a poor ...Read more
he major products from porphyry copper deposits are copper and molybdenum or copper and gold. The term porphyry copper now includes engineering as well as geological considerations; It refers to large, relatively low grade, epigenetic, intrusion-related deposits that can be mined ...Read more