Copper deposits can be found worldwide, and they are often associated with convergent plate boundaries. Copper ore is typically a mineralized system related to felsic intrusions, their composition ranges from granitic to grandodioritic. When Earth’s oceanic crust subducts beneath continental crust, a partial melting occurs, creating magma that typically has high amounts of copper. Once this magma cools, it forms large igneous intrusions, called batholiths. The crustal abundance of copper in mafic
Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mine specializing in the mining of an extremely large porphyry copper deposit. Located in the Oquirrh Mountains southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, the deposit itself is the result of a quartz monzonite porphyric intrusion into the sedimentary rocks in the area. Since the opening of the mine in 1906 it has produced more than 19 million tons of copper, making it the largest copper mine in the world as well as the largest man-made
I am applying to the MSc degree program in Geology at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, starting in winter 2014. My previous education and work experience as an exploration geologist make me a good candidate for this program. I have a strong research interest in understanding different Earth’s Lithosphere and plate boundary processes in relation to petrogenesis, mechanisms of rock deformation and metamorphism, and dynamics of crustal fluid
pectolite, appears on the terrestrial crust as I know it. Larimar has an extraordinary blue appearance, similar both in color and Scientifically, Larimar or Blue Pectolite is unique in it's mineral and chemical make-up. Sodium calcium silicate with a copper ion is the chemical description of Larimar. Larimar is also known as a healing stone. It can soften the stress and tension that problems bring. Its powers are believed to reduce anger and frustration and then gives relaxation, the various colors
Introduction The theory of dependency was initially developed in late 1950s under the guidance of Raul Prebisch - the Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America - in order to explain serious economic problems, such as poverty, economic exploitation and influence in policy actions, which happened in the poor countries in Latin America because of the development of the neighborhood developed countries (Ahiakpor 1985; Ferraro 2008). Since being formulated, dependency theory