How zircon helps identify untapped copper deposits
Mining News Pro - New research shows that it is possible to mine zircon textures to identify valuable mineral deposits.
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How machine learning can help identify new, deeply buried porphyry copper deposits
Mining News Pro - A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, presents two novel machine learning techniques to identify new, deeply buried porphyry copper deposits by characterizing magma fertility.
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Failed eruptions play a role in the creation of porphyry copper deposits
Mining News Pro - Porphyry copper deposits are largely produced by mechanisms similar to those causing large volcanic eruptions, new research by the University of Geneva has found.
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New insights into how to discover porphyry-type copper deposits
Mining News Pro - In a recent research paper, a team at the University of Exeter presents new insights into how to discover porphyry-type copper deposits.
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Understanding how porphyry-type copper deposits are formed may lead to new resources
Mining News Pro - Researchers from the University of Exeter, the British Geological Survey and the University of Surrey published a study that addresses the missing link in models that explain the formation of porphyry-type copper deposits.
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Rio signs $51 million earn-in on Zambia copper deposits
Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto has entered into an earn-in and joint venture agreement with Vancouver-based junior Midnight Sun Mining (TSXV: MMA), under which the Anglo-Australian miner can earn up to a 75% interest in the latter’s Solwezi licenses.
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Arizona once had tall mountains, indicative of copper deposits
Mining News Pro - A research group led by Jay Chapman, an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming, published a study that shows that much of the southwestern United States was once a vast plateau with elevations in excess of 10,000 feet and looked less like a desert and more like the Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayan Mountains or the Altiplano in the Andes Mountains in South America.
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How microbes contribute to the formation of giant copper deposits
Mining News Pro - A paper published in the journal Geology predicts that scientists are close to proving that microbes have control over the precipitation of metals in near-surface environments.
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