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Most beds are almost monomictic, comprising quartz-feldspar porphyry clasts, whereas some other beds are highly heterogeneous.
Finally the hardest stones such as granite and porphyry require the most tempered steel tools.
In 2000, fifty porphyry deposits had been identified in Chile, with reserves of 400 million tons of copper!
This rare work of porphyry, limestone, serpentine and onyx is unique north of the Alps.
In the baths of porphyry and verd-antique you had waters cold or sulphurous at will.
They also noted that much kaolin is in or near decomposed porphyry bodies that overlie the largest ore shoots in the Leadville Dolomite.
During this time, many of the district's steeply dipping, northeast-trending faults were intruded by narrow, granodiorite porphyry dikes.
Other possible occurrences include porphyry copper deposits that contain enargite at depth, such as Chuquicamata, Chile.
Some of the finest cuprite specimens ever found have come from the oxidized zones of several of Arizona's porphyry copper and related deposits.
This is particularly well known to collectors familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
The fault places massive fractured greenstones over relatively undeformed feldspar andesite porphyry.
The entrance foyer of the Rand Club is dominated by huge simulated porphyry columns and a grand staircase leading to a colonnaded gallery.
A porphyry obscures the contact between the Cross Slieve Group and the Red Arch Formation.
Parts of the feldspar porphyry are hydrothermally altered, and a small hydrothermal breccia or diatreme cuts the microgranite.
The ore is associated with plagiogranite porphyry of Mesozoic age.
At least two Eocene feldspar porphyry dykes or sills intrude Tsa da Glisza, and appear to have followed the same planes of weakness as the aplite dykes.
The reference to emerald stone probably indicates color rather than medium, which suggests that the statue was carved of green basalt, granite, porphyry, or serpentine.
Although closely associated with plutonic igneous rocks, porphyry mineralization commonly encompasses large volumes of the surrounding host rocks to the intrusion.
In both holes, the porphyry contains few quartz veins and is relatively homogenously mineralized with 1 to 3 percent disseminated pyrite.
Mineralization in the F zone is hosted by an apophasis of the porphyry intrusion that reaches surface.
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In the distance a curtain of porphyry and bisque drew its shadow across the moon.
There were, also, some striking water-worn masses of granitical and hornblende porphyry.
Kneeling Norman nobles carved in white marble upbear the simple, boxlike mass of porphyry upon their armored shoulders.
On the walls of the richer apartments there were orbs of porphyry and lapis lazuli.
They are delving and tracing the fat brown quartz, gold laden, from between the streaks of rifted basalt and porphyry.
The cone itself is evidently composed of similar beds super-imposed, and holding fragments of porphyry and trachyte.
Granite, porphyry, and limestone are found here, as in the other metalliferous regions.
The houses present a magnificent appearance, being built of porphyry and amygdaloid.
The columns of the whole church on the ground floor are of porphyry, and on the upper storey of verd antique.
Here may be seen columns of verd antique, porphyry and valuable marbles, built longwise into the thickness of the wall.
The floor was a tesselated pavement of porphyry and other beautiful stones.
Five others were seated on boxes about a boulder that looked like porphyry outcrop.
The veins are true fissures, and strike across the country rocks, which are principally porphyry and quartzite.
There is no question that the rhyolite was deposited in Ely Central after the enrichment of the porphyry.
I was certain that she must have read Iamblichus and porphyry.
Pebbles of felspathic porphyry were found in the river's bed.
Here and there are mixtures of schist, gneiss, and porphyry.
Of what use would porphyry, or granite, or basalt be for such purposes?
White graves or black, linen or porphyry, Are all one to me.
This is commonly illustrated by the ancient tree of porphyry.
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