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Pressure solution is a common phenomenon in massive sulphide zinc-lead deposits of western Canada and may have been an important factor leading to the mobilization of ore-forming materials during diagenesis, deformation and metamorphism of sedimentary ores. The control of ductile shear zones over gold mineralization could be explained in view of pressure solution of gold-bearing miner als under shearing stress and the resultant mobilization of this metal.
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Lianxing, G., McClay, K.R. Pressure solution of sulphides in some massive sulphide zinc—lead deposits of western Canada: Its significance in mobilization of ore—forming materials. Chin. J. of Geochem. 13, 132–141 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02838513
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