- erosion-resistant
quartz and iron oxides.
Although most
gossans are red, orange, or yellow,
black gossans from
manganese oxides such as pyrolusite, manganite...
- Iron caps or
gossans of
siliceous iron
oxide typically form as the
result of
intensive oxidation of
sulfide ore deposits.
These gossans were used by prospectors...
-
underground mining operations:
Grasberg Block Cave, Deep Mill
Level Zone and Big
Gossan. The 2023
production was 680,000
tonnes (1,500,000,000 lb) of copper, 52...
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original on 28 June 2006.
Retrieved 25
September 2010. "
gossan –
definition of
gossan by the Free
Online Dictionary,
Thesaurus and Encyclopedia"....
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places throughout the world. It
occurs as a
secondary mineral in
mineral gossans, coal deposits,
phosphate rich
pegmatites and cave
guano deposits. Warr...
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promotion and
enhancement of geotourism.
Gossan in Rajpura-Dariba
Mineralised belt nearby,
consisting of
gossan, has been
declared the
National Geological...
- FeAsO4·2H2O. It is
found in
hydrothermal deposits and as a
secondary mineral in
gossans worldwide.
Scorodite weathers to limonite.
Scorodite was
discovered in...
- is ****ociated with talc
carbonated komatiite-****ociated
nickel sulfide gossans and is
probably formed by
substitution of
nickel into
carbonates such as...
- can be
identified at
various depths. From the
surface down they are the
gossan cap,
leached zone,
oxidized zone,
water table,
enriched zone (supergene...
- also used in Sweden. The same process, at
geological speed,
results in the
gossan limonite ores. The
importance attached to low-sulfur iron is demonstrated...
