The Christmas copper mine is in the Banner mining district, Gila County, Arizona. It is 8 miles north of Winkelman and 22 miles south of Globe. The mine was opened in 1905; to the end of 1943 it had produced about 55,340,000 pounds of copper. In 1946 it was operated under lease. The ore is high-lime fluxing ore, required by the smelter at Hayden. The ore produced during 1942 averaged 2.16 perce...

A sequence of sixteen photomicrographs of thin sections of unaltered quartz diorite through a zone of deformation to myrmekite-bearing granite near Temecula, California, shows the textural and mineralogical changes that occurred in a quartz diorite as (1) K-metasomatism altered the primary plagioclase crystals to form microcline, myrmekite, quartz-bleb clusters, and recrystallized sodic plagioc...

the microscopic and geomechanical properties of igneous building stones include the level of alteration, presence of micro cracks, peak strength, porosity, proportion of detrimental minerals, etc. porosity is reportedly of a devastating impact on the peak strength of igneous rocks. the quartz diorite rock samples in this study were selected from five quarries in natanz, iran and subject to micr...

features of the area. Sills of hornblende-porphyritic clioritc, are part of the Hedley Intrusive suite believed to bc Latf Triassic or Early Jurassi.: (199 Ma based on U-Pb dates 0 ' zircons from the Banbury stock, 3.5 kilometres west o' Hedley). In this location the sills, which vary.from I to 2f' metres in thickness, make up almost 50 per cent '3f thl: stratigraphic column whtxe they intrude ...

The Neoproterozoic rocks of the Bir Madi area, south Eastern Desert, comprise a metagabbrodiorite complex (GDC) and a tonalite-granodiorite suite (TGrS). The GDC has a weak tholeiitic to strong calc-alkaline character and is made up of olivine gabbro, hornblende gabbro, diorite and monzodiorite. The olivine gabbro is characterized by abundance of augite and labradorite with pseudomorphic serpen...

nezam-abad area is located in southwest of shazand (arak) which is a part of sanandaj-sirjan zone. major intrusive rocks of nezam-abad are quartz diorite and minor amount of granodiorite. leucogranitic, pegmatite dykes and quartz-tourmaline veins were intruded the quartz diorite. quartz diorites are mainly composed of plagioclase, hornblende, biotite, quartz and pyroxene as major minerals. majo...

[1] The Coast Ridge Belt (CRB, Santa Lucia Mts., central California) comprises mid-crustal rocks (750–800 C and 0.8 GPa) of the California magmatic arc. We estimated the bulk composition of the CRB and converted our results to seismic velocities expected at the observed pressures and temperatures. The bulk composition of this arc section changes abruptly at 25 km depth from a granodiorite to a ...