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The world's biggest gold deposit –Pebble mine project in Alaska – just got a lifeline.
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The world's biggest gold deposit –Pebble mine project in Alaska – just got a lifeline.
Geology Corner: The nuts and bolts of feasibility studies on gold Great Bear Resources employees study a drill map. Credit: Great Bear Resources. Of the 123 global gold projects with completed feasibility studies or ones being worked on, 50 projects are orogenic deposits; 24 are epithermal deposit types, and eight are porphyry deposits, according to Glacier Resource Innovation Group’s Mining Intelligence database. The other deposit types are volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit projects at 16; iron oxide copper gold at six; skarn at four; and intrusion-related deposits at one. “The...