Research THE MOTHER LODE BELT

About 120 million years ago, a metal-bearing, carbonate-rich hydrothermal fluid was channelled by a steeply dipping, major strike-slip fault zone which developed nearly 10 km beneath the contemporary land surface of the Sierra Nevada in California. As of today, about...

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