calc-silicate marble

[‚kalk ′sil·ə‚kāt ′mär·bəl]

(petrology)

Marble having conspicuous calcium silicate or magnesium silicate minerals.

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The ore-bearing formations, from hanging wall to footwall, consist of a mottled dolomitic marble, a gray banded marble, a biotite hornfels marker, and a banded calc-silicate marble. The footwall is an interbedded para-amphibolite and biotite schist.

The main ore formation, the calc-silicate marble, is blasted as a separate unit from the hanging wall ore zone.

Navachab - Namibia's new mine: low-grade marble-hosted gold deposit depends on computers for grade control

This mineral occurs in calc-silicate marbles with no ultrabasic rocks occurring either as enclaves or as discrete bodies in the vicinity.

Ti-clinohumite in the Cienaga skarn-type mineralogy, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Massif (Colombia): occurrence and petrologic significance