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The Aguablanca Ni–Cu sulfide mineralization occurs in form of a poorly exposed subvertical mineralized breccia in the northern part of the Aguablanca stock, near to the sedimentary host rocks. The mineralized breccia consists of unmineralized (or very weakly mineralized) mafic-ultramafic fragments embedded in a variably mineralized matrix.
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Piña, R. (2019). The Aguablanca Ni–Cu–(PGE) Sulfide Deposit. In: The Ni-Cu-(PGE) Aguablanca Ore Deposit (SW Spain). SpringerBriefs in World Mineral Deposits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93154-8_4
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