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  2. Sedimentary exhalative deposits - Wikipedia

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    The sedimentary appearance of the thin laminations led to early interpretations that the deposits formed exclusively or mainly by exhalative processes onto the seafloor, hence the term SEDEX. However, recent study of numerous deposits indicates that shallow subsurface replacement is also an important process, in several deposits the predominant ...

  3. Ore genesis - Wikipedia

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    For example, sedimentary exhalative deposits (SEDEX), are a class of ore deposit formed on the sea floor (sedimentary) by exhalation of brines into seawater (exhalative), causing chemical precipitation of ore minerals when the brine cools, mixes with sea water, and loses its metal carrying capacity.

  4. Hydrothermal mineral deposit - Wikipedia

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    The hydrothermal fluid leaches metals as it descends and precipitates minerals as it rises. Sedimentary exhalative deposits, also called sedex deposits, are lead-zinc sulfide deposits formed in intracratonic sedimentary basins by the submarine venting of hydrothermal fluids. These deposits are typically hosted in shale.

  5. Sulfide deposit - Wikipedia

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    A sulfide deposit is an ore body or rock containing a great deal of sulfide minerals. Articles on this topic include: Seafloor massive sulfide deposits; Sedimentary exhalative deposits; Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit; Massive sulfide deposits

  6. Massive sulfide deposits - Wikipedia

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    Massive sulfide deposits are ore deposits that have significant stratiform ore bodies consisting mainly of sulfide minerals.Most massive sulfide ore deposits have other portions that are not massive, including stringer or feeder zones beneath the massive parts that mostly consist of crosscutting veins and veinlets of sulfides in a matrix of pervasively altered host rock and gangue.

  7. Depositional environment - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of various depositional environments. In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with the deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record.

  8. Broken Hill ore deposit - Wikipedia

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    The key criteria for BHT ore deposits are; [11] Association with major sedimentary packages of sandstone and siltstone protoliths sequences in highly disturbed metamorphic terranes. A Proterozoic age is considered important, as no other major SEDEX lead-zinc deposits of this style are known from the Phanerozoic or Archean.

  9. Purcell Supergroup - Wikipedia

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    The now-closed Sullivan Mine at Kimberley, British Columbia, worked a world-class sedimentary exhalative (SedEx) deposit that is hosted in the lower part of the Purcell Supergroup. During the life of the mine, the Sullivan ore body is reported to have yielded 8,412,077 tons of lead, 7,944,446 tons of zinc, and 9,264 tons of silver, as well as ...