Porphyry is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Porphyry in a sentence
Porphyry meaning
- A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix.
- A purple-red rock of this kind.
Synonyms of Porphyry
Using Porphyry
- The main meaning on this page is: A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix. | A hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrix. | A purple-red rock of this kind.
- Useful related words include: porphyritic rock, igneous rock.
- In the example corpus, porphyry often appears in combinations such as: of porphyry, porphyry copper-gold, porphyry system.
Context around Porphyry
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Porphyry
- In this selection, "porphyry" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gold, significant, 1996, copper, system and thomas stand out and add context to how "porphyry" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and camilo porphyry copper deposits and and eastern porphyry. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "porphyry" sits close to words such as accountancy, aldis and alisha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with porphyry
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All three drill holes intersected significant porphyry copper-gold mineralization. (10 words)
We continue to achieve positive near surface drill results at Anfield and Eastern Porphyry. (14 words)
Gold mineralization is contained within sediments intruded by concordant porphyry sills spanning the length of the mineralized zone. (18 words)
It has a 100% interest in the Lundmark-Akow Lake Au-Cu property plus 4 additional claim blocks in northwestern Ontario and extensive claim holdings covering several significant porphyry copper-gold prospects in the "Golden Triangle" of British Columbia. (39 words)
Thomas Taylor, The Prometheus Trust, Frome, 1996); Porphyry’s analysis of the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs is another important work in this area (Select Works of Porphyry, Thomas Taylor The Prometheus Trust, Frome, 1994). (35 words)
At La Plata, Metallic Minerals said field programs have started, including mapping and surface sampling, to advance and prioritize newly identified targets for drill testing within the footprint of the district-scale copper porphyry system. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Porphyry is writing close to the demise of the cult, and Robert Turcan has challenged the idea that Porphyry's statements about Mithraism are accurate.
Thomas Taylor, The Prometheus Trust, Frome, 1996); Porphyry’s analysis of the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs is another important work in this area (Select Works of Porphyry, Thomas Taylor The Prometheus Trust, Frome, 1994).
Gold mineralization is contained within sediments intruded by concordant porphyry sills spanning the length of the mineralized zone.
In addition, Max controls the RT Gold project (100% earn-in) in Peru, encompassing a bulk tonnage primary gold porphyry zone, and 3-km to the NW, a gold bearing massive sulphide zone.
It is adjacent with the western boundary of Teck Corporation’s Highland Valley Mine, the largest open-pit porphyry copper-molybdenum mine in western Canada.
Late-stage aplite, quartz feldspar porphyry and mafic dikes also occur with the mineralized zones and in outcrop.
Mr. Smith has garnered a technical expertise in epithermal and mesothermal gold, ultramafic-associated platinum group metals, porphyry copper-gold, diamonds, unconformity-related uranium, and coal.
Netalzul is a polymetallic epithermal-porphyry system topped by one of the largest and strongest copper, molybdenum and zinc anomalies ever observed in British Columbia.
Recent drilling at Meseta proves that a shallow intermediate-sulphidation epithermal gold system exists adjacent to the recently discovered Copper Ridge Porphyry system.
The strong copper sulphide dominant mineralisation was encountered where the skarn is in contact with the quartz monzonite porphyry.
This tells us we are on the right track, and that track appears to lead towards the copper-moly porphyry we believe is the source of the system.
We continue to achieve positive near surface drill results at Anfield and Eastern Porphyry.
All three drill holes intersected significant porphyry copper-gold mineralization.
At La Plata, Metallic Minerals said field programs have started, including mapping and surface sampling, to advance and prioritize newly identified targets for drill testing within the footprint of the district-scale copper porphyry system.
Historical surface rock geochemical sampling has delineated a copper-molybdenum anomaly that is spatially coincident and similar in size/shape with a broad zone of manganese depletion consistent with typical porphyry-copper mineralization.
In November 2023, the company entered into an option and joint venture agreement for the acquisition of an 80 percent interest in the Piuquenes Copper-Gold Porphyry Project in San Juan Province, Argentina.
It has a 100% interest in the Lundmark-Akow Lake Au-Cu property plus 4 additional claim blocks in northwestern Ontario and extensive claim holdings covering several significant porphyry copper-gold prospects in the "Golden Triangle" of British Columbia.
Located in the interpreted extension of the Macquarie Arc's Northern Molong Belt, Wongarbon is considered by Kincora to be a strong prospect for a new large-scale porphyry copper-gold complex.
Many Peaks’ Queensland assets total 1,080 square kilometers with promising geological formations indicating intrusion-related gold systems and copper-gold porphyry style mineralization.
MLV also intends to drill identified oxide gold-copper targets overlying the nearby Gaspar and Camilo porphyry copper deposits to potentially increase resources.
Common combinations with porphyry
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of porphyry 6×
- porphyry copper-gold 5×
- porphyry system 5×
- porphyry copper 4×
- and porphyry 4×
- porphyry is 3×
- the porphyry 3×
- porphyry that 3×
- by porphyry 3×
- porphyry vit 3×