The Central African Copper Belt
Sediment-hosted copper deposits are the second most important source of copper next to porphyry copper deposits and account for about […]
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Deposits and Projects
Review and overviews of mining properties, projects and districts from emerging regions to mature mining areas.
Great Deposits – Alaska’s Pebble Copper-Gold Deposit
There are big deposits and then there are supermassive deposits. A big deposit will have a good 20-40 year resource life at with
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GoldQuest Mining Corporation – Romero Project
Exploration for mineral deposits is hard. Promising geochemistry can lead nowhere, geophysical anomalies can remain anomalous, alteration zones can get
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Thomson Resources – Bygoo Tin Project
One of the joys of writing for this site, is that I get to research and discover new properties, companies and
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Great Deposits – Grasberg Part 3 – Mining and Engineering
In our first two articles we discussed the history and geology of the Grasberg Mine and it is now time to come back
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Ascot Resources Ltd: Premier Gold Property
Over the “doldrums” of summer I watched the usual news stream of AGM’s, depressing corporate updates, mildly unexciting exploration updates, leavened with the
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Great Deposits- Grasberg Part 2 – Geology
In Grasberg Part 1 we discussed the social and cultural aspects of the Grasberg deposit and outlined it’s long and fascinating
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Dalradian Resources – Gold in Northen Ireland
When I was a young geologist, unwise in the ways of alteration vectors and gold-pyrite solid solution, I had the
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Great Deposits of the World – Grasberg Part 1
When creating this series on great deposits there are various criteria that can be used to evaluate whether a deposit
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Fruta Del Norte – The Canadian Junior Exploration Industry in a Microcosm
Fruta Del Norte, is one of the largest, highest grade undeveloped gold deposits currently in existence and was also the
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