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Dioritic

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di·o·rite  (d-rt)
n.
Any of various dark, granite-textured, crystalline rocks rich in plagioclase and having little quartz.
[French, from Greek diorizein, to distinguish : dia-, apart, between; see dia- + horizein, to divide, limit; see horizon.]
dio·ritic (-rtk) adj.


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Gold mineralization at Lindero is intrusive-hosted within a dioritic porphyry.
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