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An overview of vis-nir-swir field spectroscopy - Spectral International

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LEACHED CAP<br />

Minerals in the leached cap environment include alunite, kaolinite, illite, diaspore,<br />

iron oxides, copper sulfates, and copper hydroxides.<br />

Figure 48 - Leach cap minerals include goethite,<br />

hematite, jarosite, kaolinite, chrysocolla,<br />

antlerite, brochantite, diaspore, turquoise.<br />

alunite.<br />

Exotic copper mineralization is a complex hydrochemical process linking<br />

supergene enrichment, lateral copper transport, and precipitation <strong>of</strong> copper oxide<br />

minerals in the drainage network <strong>of</strong> a porphyry copper deposit.<br />

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Figure 49 - Other leach cap minerals are copper<br />

bearing and include atacamite, azurite, malachite,<br />

chrysocolla, kaolinite.

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