There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stickers: “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Before mining can ever start, though, there has to be ore in the ...
Gold is generally associated with pyrite (iron disulfide, FeS 2), and pyrite-induced gold precipitation is critical to the formation of high-grade gold deposits. However, the role of pyrite in ...