Somero
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gold is where you find it...
Gold Deposits - GeoConsult
"Gold deposits encompass a wide variety of geological environments. Depending on the deposit type (i.e. epithermal, mesothermal, porphyry-style, disseminated, BIF-hosted, IOCG, skarns, lode, etc.), they are associated with a wide-range of alteration assemblages. Secondary minerals, although specific to deposit type, greatly vary and include quartz or chalcedony, tourmaline, clay minerals, albite, adularia, orthoclase or microcline, carbonate (often ankerite), calc-silicates, specular hematite, sericite, chlorite, fuchsite, alunite, and many more…. ""
Thanks Donald
Some of them fancy words are helping me understand what I was looking at, and how they were made.
