Stockwork
A dense network of criss-crossing veinlets that fracture the rock in all directions: the ore is diffuse rather than in a single vein. Typical of porphyries and of some tungsten and tin deposits.
Composition
Millimetre to centimetre veinlets of quartz, sulfides, scheelite or cassiterite.
Sources
In the atlas
- Iberian Pyrite Belt (representative example) Spain/Portugal
- Grasberg Indonesia
- Loulo (district de Gara-Yalea) Mali
- Cornwall tin district United Kingdom
- Miniera Bedovina Italy
- Vecchia Bedovina Italy
- Stol de Pecé Italy
- Gacun China
- Shanshulin China
- Honghai (Kalatag district) China
- Neves-Corvo Portugal
- Koru (Tahtalıkuyu et Eskikışla) Turkey
- Lianhuashan China
- Changpu China
- Guangping China
- Jiuhuashan China
- Dachongshan China
- Shanmuchong China
- Longmenchong China
- Babuling China
- Felbertal Austria
- Horní Slavkov-Krásno (Slavkovský les) Czechia
- Dalucao China
- Golden Cross Nouvelle-Zélande
- Alvo 118 Brazil