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  • adjective Of or pertaining to metallogeny
  • adjective geology Occurring in an ore as a native metal rather than as a compound such as silicate, carbonate etc

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Examples

  • Virginia City, and many other deposits through the Great Basin area of the southwestern United States and Mexico have group characteristics which have led geologists to refer to this area as a "metallogenic" or

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Petroleum as well as metallogenic provinces exist, and the world's coal deposits are strikingly concentrated in the temperate belt of the Northern Hemisphere.

    Limits to Exploitation of Nonrenewable Resources (historical) Earl Cook 2007

  • A number of joint projects had been undertaken, among them the tectonic, metallogenic and geochemical mapping of Southern

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Other features of distribution of minerals associated with igneous rocks are indicated by their grouping in metallogenic provinces and epochs

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Lake Superior copper, silver, gold ores, occurrence in a metallogenic province, 308

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Sierra Nevadas, for nearly the entire length of California, likewise constitute a metallogenic province.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • This applies not only to individual deposits, but to certain groups of deposits which have common characteristics, and which constitute a metallogenic province; also to groups of the same geologic age, which indicate a metallogenic epoch (pp. 308-309).

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Great Basin, Nevada, covering of mineral deposits by lavas, 311-312 gold-silver ores, occurrence in a metallogenic province, 308 tungsten ores, 185

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • All tenements are located in North Kivu Province of the east-central Democratic Republic of the Congo and lie within in one of the world's principal gold and tin metallogenic provinces.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The Lufilian foreland and Lufilian arc are hosted by the Katangan Sequence and together form one of the largest metallogenic districts in the world.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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