Translations for „saprolite“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

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Within saprolite, spheroidal weathering often creates rounded boulders, known as "corestones" or "woolsack", of relatively unweathered rock.

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We'll focus on the smaller, satellite deposits that are in saprolite and have simple metallurgy and are easy to mine.

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The saprolite is yellowish to reddish brown and strewn with garnet and ilmenite fragments and xenoliths.

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Often the spheroidal weathering, which created these corestones and the enclosing saprolite occurred in the prehistoric past during periods of humid, even tropical climates.

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Where such soils are formed in conjunction with saprolite production, the biomantle is the bioturbated zone above the structured (unbioturbated) saprolite, with its base commonly defined by a stonelayer.

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Nickel mineralisation in the regolith, in the upper saprolite typically exists as goethite, hematite, limonite and is often associated with polydymite and violarite, nickel sulfides which are of supergene association.

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In addition, cobalt will also be mined here from saprolite deposits.

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This includes a saprolite resource of 2 million tonnes at 1.7% nickel with a measured resource of 0.9 million tonnes at 1.8% nickel.

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Nickel content is higher in the saprolite zone although cobalt is an important by-product of the limonite horizon.

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The trenching program targeted gold mineralization in near-surface saprolite, the oxidized equivalent of hydrothermally altered bedrock structures hosting gold mineralization with associated pyrite and quartz veining.

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