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Gold in Copper-Uranium Ores of Singhbhum Shear Zone, Bihar


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1 B-41, Taxila Apartments, Sardar Patel Road, Secunderabad 500 003, India
2 Ore Dressing Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Begumpet, Hyderabad 500 016, India
     

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Nature of occurrence of native gold in the uranium ore from Jaduguda and copper ore from Mosabani in the Singhbhum Shear Zone, Bihar, is described. Preliminary data on the gold contents of different ore deposits along the shear zone, and their beneficiation products, are also reported. The native gold particles appear to be of detrital origin.

Keywords

Economic Geology, Gold, Detrital Origin, U-Cu Ores, Singhbhum Shear Zone, Bihar.
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N. Krishna Rao
B-41, Taxila Apartments, Sardar Patel Road, Secunderabad 500 003, India
T. S. Sunilkumar
Ore Dressing Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Begumpet, Hyderabad 500 016, India
D. Narasimhan
Ore Dressing Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Begumpet, Hyderabad 500 016, India

Abstract


Nature of occurrence of native gold in the uranium ore from Jaduguda and copper ore from Mosabani in the Singhbhum Shear Zone, Bihar, is described. Preliminary data on the gold contents of different ore deposits along the shear zone, and their beneficiation products, are also reported. The native gold particles appear to be of detrital origin.

Keywords


Economic Geology, Gold, Detrital Origin, U-Cu Ores, Singhbhum Shear Zone, Bihar.