Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coarse-grained metamorphic rock, typically containing garnet, pyroxene, and wollastonite, formed by contact metamorphism of carbonate rocks.
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- noun geology Any of various
metamorphic rocks formed bymetasomatism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The fine-grained skarn degraded easily and produced only a 40 to 50 per cent extraction level since the related rapid fine formation reduced bacterial activity and caused iron hydroxide precipitation.
Chapter 6 1984
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The Kangas Zone represents a north-south trending zone of skarn and replacement style mineralization within siltstone, calcareous siltstone and minor limestone located along the north flank of the central ridge of the Justin property.
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QFP's are associated with the skarn and porphyry copper deposits of the Nevada basin area.
unknown title 2011
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The Dolly Varden area is recognized as a classic eastern Great Basin district with base and precious metals associated with upper Paleozoic sediments intruded by Cretaceous auriferous magmas, which is a similar geological setting to the Battle Mountain Fortitude skarn gold type deposit in east central Nevada.
unknown title 2011
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The primary target for the program was trench SN97-2 which returned historic values of 2.38 g/t Au over 22.5 metres. 2011 drilling returned anomalous gold and copper values from the calc-silicate skarn adjacent to porphyry dikes.
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The ring of skarn deposits has not been systematically explored, and the central intrusive complex offers an interesting bulk-tonnage target.
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The ring of skarn deposits has not been systematically explored, and the central intrusive complex offers an interesting bulk-tonnage target.
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Alturas 'exploration strategy is focused on the discovery of large epithermal gold mineralized deposits and copper-gold porphyry/skarn deposits in Peru and Chile.
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The Bambana target lies four kilometres northwest of the past producing Rosita copper mine, a copper skarn deposit that is estimated to have produced 305 million pounds of copper over the life of the mine
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The ring of skarn deposits has not been systematically explored, and the central intrusive complex offers an interesting bulk-tonnage target.
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