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The Buccaneer Porphyry is a porphyrytic monzonite intrusion (an alkali intrusive rock commonly associated with bulk-tonnage intrusive related gold deposits around the world) that has been mapped using multi-element geochemistry over an area approximately 3 kilometres by 1.5 kilometres.
magictomato commented on the word porphyrytic
Shouldn't this be 'porphyritic'?
March 23, 2009