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  • adjective geology downward along a dip
  • adverb geology downwards along a dip

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Examples

  • At Qiaojiang, drilling is targeting fault zones downdip from trench exposures that have produced strongly anomalous gold values, locally coinciding with IP chargeability anomalies.

    unknown title 2011

  • The Itaipu-2 well established a fluid contact and appears to have successfully extended the accumulation 120 meters downdip from the discovery.

    unknown title 2011

  • Drilling to date has intersected several intervals of altered and mineralized QFP in each hole, with 3 separate porphyry units showing continuity along strike and downdip.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Goldrea's indicated resources (2.67 million tonnes 2.03 g/t) downdip from the Rushan Daye Gold Mine have the potential to be custom milled at the Daye 1,800 TPD gold concentrator once additional shafts and underground development enable the Company to hoist 1,000 - 1,500 tonnes from underground per day.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Drilling to date has intersected several intervals of altered and mineralized QFP in each hole, with 3 separate porphyry units showing continuity along strike and downdip.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • After completing the well test operations, the well will be plugged back and a further side-track downdip and to the southeast of the original discovery well will be drilled to better understand the location of the oil water contact (OWC) in the field.

    Testing operations at Cladhan appraisal well confirms oil: EnCore - Energy Business Review 2010

  • ( "Harte") (TSX VENTURE: HRT) (FRANKFURT: H4O) is pleased to announce that a 2,000 meter diamond drilling program will get underway this week to test the downdip extension of the Sugar Zone which currently hosts an NI 43-101 gold resource of 904,400 tonnes grading 9.75 g/t Au for 283,500 ounces of contained gold.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • The potential to develop additional resources on the Rushan Goldrea joint venture is still open as well as further downdip on the Company's adjoining Ludi joint venture property.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • The well has been drilled to a total measured depth of 10,863 feet to appraise the downdip extension of the gas condensate rich Palaeocene Andrew sands, the primary reservoir of the Stella discovery.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • The prospect covers a most likely area of roughly 60 km2 (14,826 acres), with some possible downdip upside potential in the upper reservoir zone.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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