Gojo mine is situated in the so-called undetermined Mesozoic formation which is consisted of shale, sandstone, tuff, chert, diabase and limestone. The ore bodies are lenticular in shape, and are consisted of pyrite, melnicovite-pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, quartz and chlorite. The ore bodies and the country rocks are remarkably sheared, and the most part of the ores are cataclastic in texture, but there are some ores which are colloidal in texture in the inner part of the ore bodies where shearing is not so remarkable. The colloidal texture is pre-tectonic (pre-cataclastic).
The colloidal ores show radial, concentric and spherical arrangement, are mainly consisted of melnicovite-pyrite associated with some sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, quartz and chlorite. The ores must be formed by coagulation or precipitation of the dispersed phase from the disperse system.
The geological agitation in this case might be volcanism, and the dispersion medium might be sea water or brackish water which contains sufficient amount of electrolyte to coagulate the sulphidesol. The source of the materials of the ore deposits is also the volcano, and the deposits are probably syngenetic in origin.
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