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Conglomerate
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A corporation operating in several different and unrelated enterprises, such as the movie industry, baking, and oil refining.

A conglomerate merger is one that brings together two firms with totally different product lines, economic relationships, and functions. Such a merger may violate antitrust acts inasmuch as it may have an adverse effect on competition.


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The upper zone mineralization is exposed at the surface in conglomeratic rocks and was targeted by early miners (see news release dated January 26, 2004).
The Cerro Solo deposit is a sandstone-type uranium-molybdenum deposit with mineralized layers distributed in fluvial conglomeratic sandstone of the Cretaceous Chubut Group lying 50 to 130 metres ("m") below surface.
Mineralization initially ascended these structures and formed large disseminated zones within the surrounding porous conglomeratic host rocks.
 
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