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What is a gossan?

What is a gossan? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (geology) decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein
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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.
Several Cornish mining words are used in English language mining terminology, such as costean, gossan, gunnies, kibbal, kieve and vug.
This further step forward can be attributed to the presence of iron oxide gossan minerals in the weathered upper zones of copper sulfide deposits.
Subcropping gossan overlying the deposit was also sampled.
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.
Some of these veins reached the surface where, in the enclosing gossan, the stibnite has been subjected to oxidation.

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