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⇱ Granite from Porcupine deposit, Lupa Gold field, Songwe Region, Tanzania


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Granite from
Porcupine deposit, Lupa Gold field, Songwe Region, Tanzania

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Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Type:Granite
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Porcupine deposit, Lupa Gold field, Songwe Region, Tanzania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1266511
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1266511:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
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samples from the Lupa goldfield, southwest Tanzania. Three samples from the Kenge deposit provide a weighted...samples and one repeat analysis from the Porcupine deposit provide a weighted average Re-Os molybdenite...ages from ultrafine molybdenite samples within the Lupa goldfield that were previously unsuitable for molybdenite...wide variety of ore deposit types (e.g., porphyry, epithermal, skarn, orogenic gold, and others), (2) its...have greatly improved our understanding of ore deposit genesis (e.g., Stein et al., 1997; Ballard et al
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and Chalcopyrite Geochronology, Lupa Goldfield, Southwestern Tanzania: Tracing Metallogenic Time Scales...(Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa goldfield, southwestern Tanzania, is reported...occurrences within the Lupa goldfield share many geologic similarities with the orogenic Au deposit type and are...Molybdenite at Porcupine occurs as ultrafine disseminations within quartz veins and mylonitized granite samples...observed at Kenge, Mbenge, and Porcupine. Gold occurrences in the Lupa goldfield therefore record a protracted
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orogenic gold style mineralization at the Southwestern Archaean Tanzanian cratonic margin, Lupa Goldfield...Goldfield, SW Tanzania: Implications from U–Pb titanite geochronology C.J.M. Lawley a,b,⁎, D. Selby a, D. Condon...Keywords: Lupa Goldfield Paleoproterozoic Orogenic Gold Tanzania Ubendian Belt a b s t r a c t The Lupa Goldfield...pyrite with gold bearing inclusions and sampled from the host mylonitic shear zone suggest that gold occurred...late in this hydrothermal history. The ca. 1.88 Ga gold event is recorded at all five of the studied prospects
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UK The world-class carbonate-hosted Navan Zn–Pb deposit, Ireland, is Europe’s leading zinc producer. The...Ore depositional processes in the Navan Zn–Pb deposit, Ireland, Econ. Geol., 93, 535–563. Fallick, A...consistent with an unconformity controlled uranium deposit (Bowell, 2011; Le Roux and Toens, 1982). Uranium...111–112, Johannesburg, S.A.I.M.M. The Kamoa copper deposit, Central African Copperbelt, Democratic Republic...comprises deposit fragments that occur within or above similar breccias. Typical of the deposit class, deposits
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