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Examples of saprolite
saprolite
In soils forming from bedrock, a thick layer of weathered material called saprolite may form.
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The regolith is extremely deeply weathered, in some areas completely converted to saprolite up to 100 metres below surface.
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Zambales Deposit Drilling Programme An intensive drilling campaign focusing on the nickel saprolite ore is planned at the Zambales deposit.
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The resource to date is based on pits sunk in the limonite zone, which bottomed out above the saprolite ore, which is expected to be higher grade.
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Composite tests of equal limonite and saprolite are behaving greater than the average of the two and the leach rate appears to be faster than the leach rate at the Caldag project in Turkey.
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- A deposit of clay and disintegrating rock that is found in its original place
- Saprolite is a chemically weathered rock. Saprolites form in the lower zones of soil profiles and represent deep weathering of the bedrock surface. In most outcrops its color is due to ferric compounds. ...
- Unconsolidated residual material underlying the soil and grading to hard bedrock below.
- Igneous, metamorphic, and/or sedimentary rock that has been altered (biochemically weathered) in place to secondary clays and iron-aluminum oxides, but which retains its original rock fabric character. ...
- A layer of rotten rock created by chemical weathering in warm, wet climates.
