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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The replacement or impregnation of a rock with metallic sulphids.

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Examples

  • Riscos de Oro is a southwest trending, low sulphidation epithermal gold-silver quartz vein system that has been traced at surface for over 2 kilometres and has an inferred cumulative strike length of 7km.

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  • The multiple vein structures are steeply dipping and low sulphidation epithermal in nature.

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  • - Boundary - low sulphidation epithermal vein array that has returned rock chip assay results of 9. 9g/t Au, 6. 8g/t Au and 5.6 g/t Au.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • The mineralization is characterized by low sulphidation epithermal banded quartz veins and quartz breccias that are interpreted to be a new gold zone within the Riscos vein system.

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

  • Mineralisation styles across the project range from porphyry associated stockworks and replacement through to high and low sulphidation epithermal veins.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • The new claim covers an additional 6 sq km over the 2 km by 1.5 km multiphase high sulphidation epithermal alteration zone hosted in felsic Tertiary volcanics.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Middle Cauca belt of Colombia, the high-sulphidation epithermal gold - (copper) and porphyry copper prospects located on the Azuero Peninsula in Panama, and the La Ventura prospect in the

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • Riscos de Oro is a southwest trending, low sulphidation epithermal gold-silver quartz vein system that has been traced on surface for over 2.0 kilometres.

    Latest News from SYS-CON MEDIA 2010

  • Field work is also gearing up at Pan de Azucar where earlier Hidefield surface sampling obtained gold assays as high as 54g/t from the outcropping low-sulphidation quartz vein that has been mapped on surface over a strike length of 1 kilometer.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • ( "Condor" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: CN) is pleased to announce that a new 2 by 1.5 km high sulphidation epithermal alteration zone has been discovered immediately to the southeast and contiguous with the East Zone breccias on the Pucamayo property.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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