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- adjective geology, soil science Of or pertaining to
clay or clay minerals.
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Examples
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Multiple veins have been identified, with argillic alteration and erratic silver and gold values.
unknown title 2011
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Mineralisation in the Tulkubash Zone is hosted in silicified quartzites and mineralised zones exhibiting pervasive silicification and some argillic alteration, together with elevated contents of sulphides at depth of up to 5%-10% of volume.
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The strong argillic alteration of the host rocks has been interpreted to represent the upper portions of a high sulfidation system.
unknown title 2011
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Multiple veins have been identified, with argillic alteration and erratic silver and gold values.
unknown title 2011
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Alteration is typical of gold porphyry deposits as exemplified by a potassic-calcic core surrounded by sericitic, intermediate argillic, and propyllitic alteration zones.
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Once Bocas is a broad, moderate to intense argillic alteration zone that includes numerous well-developed quartz stockworks and several discrete veins.
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Once Bocas is a broad, moderate to intense argillic alteration zone that includes numerous well-developed quartz stockworks and several discrete veins.
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Work to date is centered around a diatreme dike complex 300 meters wide by 600 meters long which is associated with strong argillic alteration (illite-sericite), pyritization.
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Duran geologists have identified extensive zones with stockwork quartz veinlets and oxidized pyrite, which are part of a large phyllic alteration system that grades outwards to zones of argillic and propylitic alteration.
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The docite exhibits argillic alterations as well as silicification (quartz veins).
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