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Model Reveals the Recipe for High-Grade Ore Deposits (1 of 3)

Caption: Aerial Photo of the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, USA. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 15, 2012, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Philipp Weis at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Porphyry-Copper Ore Shells Form at Stable Pressure-Temperature Fronts Within Dynamic Fluid Plumes."

Credit: Image courtesy of the Utah Geological Survey

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