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latite

 or trachyandesite

Type of igneous rock that is abundant in western North America. Usually white, yellowish, pinkish, or gray, it is the volcanic equivalent of monzonite. Latites contain plagioclase feldspar (andesine or oligoclase) as large, single crystals (phenocrysts) in a fine-grained matrix of orthoclase feldspar and augite.
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A series of mineralized quartz latite dikes that has intruded the basal andesitic volcanic units is known to host silver mineralization over a wide zone that extends into the Montecristo III concession.
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Two latite dikes of unknown size may have locally displaced mineralization along the structure.
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Alteration on the Hills Property is located within the magnetic low and consists of sericite-altered, rhyolite to latite tuffs and flows that have been cut by calcite veins and stockworks.
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