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Some of these veins reached the surface where, in the enclosing gossan, the stibnite has been subjected to oxidation.
It was found in gossan from a dump of one of the small mines on the southeastern side of the mountain on the World's Fair claim group.
Here unusually lustrous crystals to 2.5 cm across occurred in limonite-malachite gossan.
Most are free of matrix, although some of the paler green or greenish-yellow groups are on gossan and are associated with cream to bluish cerussite.
The pyroxenite host is well mineralized with disseminated pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite forming a prominent gossan.
This further step forward can be attributed to the presence of iron oxide gossan minerals in the weathered upper zones of copper sulfide deposits.
It is overlain by up to 7.5 m of gossan and unconsolidated glacial till.
Subcropping gossan overlying the deposit was also sampled.
Several Cornish mining words are used in English language mining terminology, such as costean, gossan, gunnies, kibbal, kieve and vug.
The main yields were lead and zinc ores, in particular galena, blende, cerussite and gossan.
Gossan, also spelled gozzan, rust-coloured oxide and hydroxide minerals of iron and manganese that cap an ore deposit.
Gossan Resources Ltd. holds a dolomite deposit at Inwood, Manitoba, on which the company is conducting studies towards a metal project.
Gossan has examined the Mintek process for the production of magnesium and has evaluated the use of other production methods.
At least five copper veins were mined named the Sump, Pave York, Low Gill and Gossan Veins.
Rock sample 2074 taken from Gossan Ridge contains abundant alunite, tremolite, tourmaline, goethite, and quartz alteration of amphibole bearing-alkali rhyolite.
Examples from Classical Literature
The gossan does not often carry much value, though it may show traces of minerals which suggest what may be found below.
The ore in the gossan is very generally more valuable than it will be below, and this is especially true of gold and silver ores.
The Hanging Tree Prospect corresponds to a copper and zinc anomalous gossan within the Mimosa Unit and coincident soil geochemical, EM and magnetic anomalies.
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