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Earth’s mineral diversity 75% greater than previously thought

Mining Dot Com 05 Jul 2022
Composed of one part iron to two parts sulphide (FeS2), pyrite is derived and delivered via meteorites, volcanos, hydrothermal deposits, by pressure between layers of rock, near-surface rock weathering, microbially-precipitated deposits, several mining-associated processes and many other means.
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Scientists decipher, catalog the diverse origins of Earth's minerals

Phys Dot Org 01 Jul 2022
Composed of one part iron to two parts sulfide (FeS2), pyrite is derived and delivered via meteorites, volcanos, hydrothermal deposits, by pressure between layers of rock, near-surface rock weathering, microbially-precipitated deposits, several mining-associated processes including coal mine fires, and many other means.
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Maple drills 4.0 g/t gold over 7.5 metres at Eagle, Quebec

Resource World 20 Jun 2022
Maple Gold Mines Ltd ... It said the program consisted of eight diamond drill holes, covering 4,462 metres ... Drilling highlights include hole EM-22-005, which returned 4.0 g/t gold over 7.5 metres, including 6.4 g/t gold over 3.0 metres within a semi-massive pyrite and iron carbonate horizon typical of the Eagle-Telbel style of mineralization ... ....
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Hannan Identifies Outcropping Cu-Au Porphyry Mineralization Over 1600m Long And 800m Wide Area At The ...

Eagle-Tribune 13 Jun 2022
A gold-bearing epithermal target area identified by large gold mineralized boulders of quartz-pyrite and iron oxides as well as strongly gold anomalous soil samples has been discovered 2.5 km NW of the Southern Porphyry Target.
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Metals Creek drills 36.21 g/t gold over 2.47 metres at Dona Lake, Ontario

Resource World 09 Jun 2022
Mineralization was hosted within a silicate sulfide iron formation with 0.5 to 25% pyrrhotite and local pyrite with associated grunerite and garnets ... It is hosted within a moderately foliated and chloritized iron formation with 1-20% pyrrhotite and 2-10% pyrite ... pyrite.
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Open Range: Nature's beauty not always shiny

Independent Record 05 Jun 2022
Ever since decades ago when my brother and I buried “gold” (actually iron pyrite) in coffee cans up Telegraph Creek, I have been a rock hound ... A little pyrite, some “diamonds,” which disappointingly always turned out to be quartz crystals and garnets, which could never seem to be successfully extracted from the heavy matrix that encased them ... bear ... .
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FireFox Gold Provides an Exploration Update on its Sarvi and Mustaj�rvi Projects, Lapland, Finland

Eagle-Tribune 27 May 2022
The rocks in this area are tholeiitic basalt, graphite tuff, and iron formation, which are interpreted to straddle the contact with the Porkonen Formation ... The exhalate horizons are sometimes cut by iron-carbonate veins and stockworks ... At greater depths in the hole, sphalerite (zinc sulfide) is associated with the iron-carbonate veining.
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Criminal probe into Thungela Resources for ‘catastrophic’ acid mine water spill

Mail Guardian South Africa 23 May 2022
Life here has been idyllic ... Acid mine drainage, which has a low pH and is high in acidity, occurs when water reacts with pyrite in mining cavities beneath the earth’s surface. It is rich in iron, lead and other metals, many of which are present in toxic concentrations and also contains high concentrations of sulphate ... It was horrible ... Green Scorpions.
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Ancient Maya Tooth Bling Was Also Good for Oral Hygiene!

Ancient Origins 22 May 2022
The Maya loved their bling and often decorated their teeth with gemstones. But maybe these weren’t all just for show ... An example of a Maya teeth featuring a gemstone in inlay modification ... And in some cases, front teeth were encrusted with gemstones including “ jadeite, iron pyrites, hematite, turquoise, quartz, serpentine and cinnabar,” said Dr ... .
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No gold or copper deposits in Udayagiri - GSI

Deccan Chronicle 18 May 2022
The GSI collected as many as 46 samples from the area and found traces of pyrites (a shiny yellow mineral consisting of iron disulfide and typically occurring as intersecting cubic crystals) in some habitations ... Pyrite is used to manufacture ferrous sulfate.
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Timberline Drills More High-Grade Gold in the Water Well Zone, Eureka Project, Nevada

Eagle-Tribune 18 May 2022
Fine-grained disseminated pyrite is first noted at approximately 210m depth, but there are several intervals of oxidation associated with faulting ... There is a good correlation between the presence of pyrite, gold, and silver, but the most intense silver mineralization is associated with a zone of iron oxide occurring between 270m and 321m depth.
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Hannan Identifies Significant Copper-Gold Porphyry-Epithermal Discoveries at Valiente, Peru

Eagle-Tribune 12 May 2022
... a Miocene-age porphyry intrusion with artisanal gold workings located downstream.Central Epithermal gold targetA 2 km long epithermal target area identified by gold mineralized boulders of quartz-pyrite and iron oxides as well as strongly gold anomalous soil samples over 1,500m.
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Torq Makes New Discovery at its Margarita Iron-Oxide Copper-Gold Project: 90 metres of 0.94% Copper ...

Eagle-Tribune 02 May 2022
The upper portion of the mineralized intercept, from 40 m - 106 m, is characterized as a zone of mixed secondary iron and copper oxide minerals and a sulphide mineral assemblage of chalcopyrite and pyrite that grades into sulphide-only mineralization at a depth of 106 m - 140 m (Figure 7).
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Metals Creek drills 2.64 g/t gold over 27.9 metres at Dona Lake, Ontario

Resource World 25 Apr 2022
Metals Creek Resources Corp ... This was a part of a broader zone of mineralization of 2.64 g/t gold over 27.90 metres (399.95-427.85 m). Mineralization is hosted within silicate-sulfide iron formation and characterized by stringer to locally disseminated pyrrhotite ranging from 1% to 4% with local pyrite ... ....
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Byron Williams: The unintended consequences of term limits

Winston-Salem Journal 24 Apr 2022
Byron Williams Winston-Salem Journal. The San Francisco Chronicle recently published a story about claims that California’s senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein is “mentally unfit to serve” and that her staff is doing much of her work. Four U.S ... Mencken opines ... People are also reading…. Sheriff ... Miss Manners ... But it is ultimately iron pyrite (fools gold) ... .

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