VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF MINING ENGINEERING

TEACHER:

GRADE: MINERAL DEPOSITS

CONTENIDO
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS A VEIN?

MORPHOLOGY AND PARTS

ORIGIN OF THE VEINS

VEIN CLASSIFICATION

VEIN FORMS

VEIN SYSTEMS

CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION

Vein deposits have a tabular symmetry. The

origin of the tabular structure can be a
hydrothermal vein, a magmatic dike, or a
mineralized fault zone.
Dikes are structures of magmatic formation
(magmatic crystallization) with a width between
1 m and 200 m. Dikes frequently show a slat at
the boundary to the host rock.
WHAT IS A VEIN?

A vein or vein, are sheets of minerals that are embedded

in the rocks through their fissures, and that generally
have great economic value; and the finding and
extraction of the minerals from the veins is a task
carried out by the miners.
ORIGIN OF THE VEINS

The veins generally have a width between 1 cm to 30 cm.

It generally tapers off towards its extremes until be reduced, in certain
cases, to a few millimeters. there are streaks up to several meters
wide. They can be narrow power (less than 3m) and wide or high power
(greater than
3m)
It may be that the lithology of the host rock has an
influence on the extent of mineralization.

Veins are structures of post-magmatic formation, mostly

hydrothermal. Minerals crystallize from an aquatic phase
according to temperature and pressure (among other
factors see more information).

Of course vein structures always show a relationship to

the structural geology of the sector. The tabular
structure itself is a tectonic structure.
 Glasses
THREADS areas where the vein decreases
They are veinlets very your potential and their tips
thin that intersect each they are elongated it is said
other. that his structure is lenticular

WAYS TO VEINS

BRANCHES Horse
they are forks of the vein that is the part sterile large size
has an address and tilt that is among the branches of
different and thickness the vein.
minors.
IMPREGNATIONS
They are deposits of small
amounts of ore in the
blueprints adjoining the
veins.
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