Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
alaskaite . - noun In petrography, a name proposed by Spurr (1900) for igneous rocks composed almost wholly of alkalic feldspar and quartz without other essential minerals.
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Examples
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At Empire, Colorado, one of the principal producing localities, it is found in veins, associated with pyrite, and filling the interstices between brecciated fragments of a wall rock composed of alaskite (an acid igneous rock).
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Gold mineralization at Mineral Ridge and the adjacent areas is hosted by localized pegmatitic alaskite and accessory quartz veins that exist near a granite-metasediment contact.
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Gold mineralization at Mineral Ridge and the adjacent areas is hosted by localized pegmatitic alaskite and accessory quartz veins that exist near a granite-metasediment contact.
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This mineralization occurs at or near a shallow dipping contact between alaskite, rhyolite breccia and Luning limestone approximately 40 feet below the old 353 ft. level and above the 500 ft.
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Peter McIntyre, Extract Resources MD, is on record as saying "Rössing South is the first new alaskite-hosted uranium discovery in Namibia in many years and is shaping up as the most significant discovery since the SJ deposit at the Rössing Mine".
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Rössing South is the first new alaskite hosted uranium discovery in Namibia in many years and is shaping up as the most significant discovery since the SJ deposit at the
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Hole BD-08-37 was a vertical drill hole that collared into andesite at 15. 30m followed by intercalated andesite and alaskite through to 163. 00m.
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- 467. 00m with minor intercalated alaskite throughout before intersecting the quartz feldspar porphyry.
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