Day 3 Flashcards
Atomic Wt of Cr
51.996 g
Atomic Wt of Ni
58.693 g
Atomic Wt of Au
196.97 g
Atomic Wt of O
15.999 g
Atomic Wt of Zn
65.38 g
Atomic Wt of Hg
200.59 g
Atomic Wt of Cu
63.546 g
Atomic Wt of Fe
55.845
1 assay ton
29.1666 g
Why are sulfides good in flotation?
Hydrophobicity except for zinc
Oil exploration location in 2008
Tañon Strait
Crisscross of veins or veinlets
Stockwork
Secondary mineral in a fracture
vein
Acid used to extract Uranium
Ammonium Nitrate (NH4)2NO3 or Sulfuric Acid H2SO4
Sulfate used as drilling mud
Barite
Scale of an army map
1:50,000
Philex Negros mine extracts
AU and Cu
Gold SG
19.3
Cr SG
4.6
Graphite SG and Hardness
2 and 1-2
Sphalerite SG
4ish
Sphalerite Hardness
3.5-4
Host rock in Philex Bulawan in Negros
Dacite Porphyry breccia
Porphyry zone where most gold mineralization is found
Quartz-sericite-calcite
Describe Porphyry rock (Grain size, phenocryst type, ground mass )
Large rgained, quartz or feldspar phenocryst, silicate aphanitic groundmass
Where and How Sudbury Basin formed
Canadian Shield and meteorite impact
Sudbury basin metals extracted
Ni and Cu
Main resource formed in the Pre-Cambrian
Gold
Measured plus indicated resource
Demonstrated resources
Aside from modifying factors, the 3 most important info needed from resource to become reserve
(Quantity and Grade) (Econ feasible prod) (tech for ore extn and proc is available)
number of tectonic plates on earth
12 major plates
What is triboluminescence?
Luminous upon crushing
Chem formula of Calaverite
AuTe2
Chem form of Covellite
CuS
Types of Gypsum
Satin spar, selenite, alabaster
Other name for Iceland Spar
Calcite (Optically clear)
Other name for lodestone
Magnetite
Rutile, Anastase, Brookite
TiO2
Realgar formula name
Realgar
Carbonate ore of Mg
Magnesite (MgCO3)
Synonym for dolomite
Pearl Spar
Ore of Antimony (Sb2S3)
Stibnite
Pyrrhotite chemical formula
FeS
Carbonate ore of lead
Cerrusite
Known as “Black-Jack”
Sphalerite
Ions that lends color
Chromophore
Anhydrous Gypsum
Anhydrite
Emerald is a variety of
Beryl
3 Corundrum varieties
Rub, Sapphire, emery
Violet or purple variety of quartz
Amethyst
Forsterite-Fayalite solid solution cations
Mg to Fe
“the layer of unconsolidated rocky material covering bedroc”
Regolith
Bedding less than 1 cm thick
laminae
Bedding 1 cm or thicker
strata
Blue mineral in metamorphic rocks
glaucophane
Makes Greenschist green
Chlorite, epidote, actinolite
Index mineral is?
min that charcterize ea metamorphic zone
Definition of porphyritic texture
two contrasting crystal size, phenocryst and groundmassgroundmass
Igneous rock w/ very rapid cooling
glassy
Define fragmental texture
broken fragments of rock bc of volcanic eruption
Mafic composed of this % of olivine and pyroxene
> 45%
What is Porphyroblast?
like porphyrytic but for sedimentary rock
Pyroelectric is?
Naturally polarized crystal with a natural electric field
Thermoluminescence means
emits visible light when subjected to lower relative heat
amount of dark minerals in felsic
15% or less
Intermediate ig rock contains this % of dark minerals
15-45%
3 elements PGE’s combine with
Sb, Sb, S
Amount of alumina in refractory chromite
> 20%
Stratiform chromite contains this
V2O5
Most common Carbonate minerral in epithermal deposits
Calcite
Processes that epithermal deposits undeergo
- heat source,
- fluid flow,
- chemical reaction
Most common skarn deposit in the world
Calcic Endoskarn
Mineral deposit that comes from simple crystallization of intrusive bodies
Magmatic deposit
A way a magmatic deposit forms diff minerals
Segregation
VMS with no lead and galena in it
Cyprus
Porphyry zone that results from deep acid fluids and magmatic SO2
high temperature advanced argilic
Argillic are formed by
neutral pH-chloride fluids
Where gold is most like ly found
Silicification
Exsolution means
Solid solution phase unmixes into two separate phases
Contact metasomatism means?
When a fluid from magma contact alters wall rock consituents
Define “residual concentration”
Val minerals that form after weathering of other minerals (ie. laterite)
Describe deposit in Kuroko type
Strata bound polymetallic mineral due to submarine felsic volcanism
Describe deposit in Cyprus type
Stratiform/Massive base metal sulfide assoc w/ mafic-ultramafic composition, High Lead and mod Silver
Describe Besshi type
Strata bound massive cupriferous iron sulfide deposits in bed or lenticular for concordant to crystalline schist
Represents concentration of diffuse metals
metalliferous deposits
Decrease in pressure promotes
precipitation
Hydrothermal deposit temp range for epithermal
50-200 C