Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, that kind of ore-deposit in which the ore is pretty generally or uniformly distributed through a large mass of rock, so that the excavations are not limited to a certain narrow zone, as they are in the case of an ordinary fissure-vein.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mining) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
- noun (Geol.) A metalliferous deposit characterized by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.
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- noun mining A system of working in
ore , etc., when it lies not instrata orveins , but in solidmasses , so as to be worked in chambers or stories. - noun geology A
metalliferous deposit characterized by theimpregnation of the mass of rock with many smallveins ornests irregularly grouped, especially common withtin ore.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The, quartz sulfide stockwork, which is the host rock for mineralization, trends east and west of our recent drilling in this area and remains open on both ends and at depth for additional drilling.
U.S. Precious Metals Announces Results from Drill Hole # 7 - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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The rocks are weakly to moderately altered with sericite, silica, and fine quartz stockwork veinlets.
unknown title 2011
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Ubiquitous fine disseminated chalcopyrite is generally correlative with the density of quartz-sulfide stockwork veinlets, which peak at a density of about 40% by volume near 275 meters, and gradually diminish to about 5% by volume at the end of the hole.
unknown title 2011
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Disseminated chalcopyrite is ubiquitous and generally correlates with the density of quartz-sulfide stockwork veinlets, which peak at a volume of about 30% near 150 meters, and very gradually diminish to a volume of about 5% at the end the hole.
unknown title 2011
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Quartz-sulfide stockwork veinlets and associated fine disseminated chalcopyrite are ubiquitous throughout the entire hole.
unknown title 2011
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The strongest mineralization encountered was a zone of intercalated "salami" granite, andesite, and aplite containing a stockwork to sheeted quartz + pyrite veinlets with visible gold, identified in a hole located approximately two kilometres southeast of the deposit.
unknown title 2011
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Preliminary geological mapping and projection of FMR intercepts in drill holes suggest that the REE mineralization consists of dikes and adjacent stockwork with dimensions of roughly 700 feet (210 meters) east-west by 250 feet (75 meters) north-south, and the mineralization is open to the east.
unknown title 2011
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Overall, the mineralization occurs in a sericite-carbonate +/- albite altered dacitic volcanic complex with zones of quartz veins, quartz stockwork and quartz breccias.
unknown title 2011
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Detailed mapping suggests that the REE mineralization consists of northwest-striking FMR dikes and an FMR stockwork zone that is elongate northeasterly, with dimensions of roughly 1250 feet (380 meters) by 950 feet (290 meters).
unknown title 2011
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Quartz-sulfide stockwork veinlets and associated fine disseminated chalcopyrite are ubiquitous throughout the entire hole.
unknown title 2011
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