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unusual facts about Minerals



Adair Crawford

In 1790, along with his colleague William Cruickshank at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, London, Crawford noted the distinctiveness of strontianite from barium minerals, and may thereby be said to be the discoverer of strontium.

Atoposaurus

The Teylers Museum has a holotype specimen Atoposaurus oberndorfi that was bought by curator J.G.S. van Breda in 1863 from Adam August Krantz (1809-1872), dealer in minerals in Bonn from 1850 onwards.

Barbertonite

Read and Dixon (et al. 1933) stated that the mineral that was found in Cunningsburgh, Shetland Islands was stichtite but it is now thought to be barbertonite because of the very similar indices of the minerals (Frondel et al. 1941).

Chalkidiki

As of 2013 a revival of mining for gold and other minerals was underway with a number of concessions having been granted to Eldorado Gold of Canada.

Chavara

The public sector companies like KMML ( Kerala Minerals and metals Ltd)and IRE (Indian Rare Earths Ltd) are located in kerala.

Chu 13

CHU 13 includes essential minerals and trace elements that are required by algae for growth, but does not include a carbon source and so is only appropriate for growth of phototrophs.

Conflict minerals

In April 2009, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced the Congo Conflict Minerals Act of 2009 (S. 819) to require electronics companies to verify and disclose their sources of cassiterite, wolframite, and tantalum.

Cupalite

Both minerals are thus far restricted to the area of Listvenitovyi Stream, in the Khatyrka ultramafic (silicon-poor) zone of the Koryak–Kamchatka fold area, Koryak Mountains, Beringovsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.

Eagle Mine

Eagle mine project, a nickel and copper mine by proposed by the Kennecott Minerals Corporation

Economy of the Caribbean

The greatest concentrations of minerals most valuable on the international market are found in: Cuba, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Enstatite

Enstatite is one of the few silicate minerals that have been observed in crystalline form outside our Solar System, particularly around evolved stars and Planetary Nebulae such as NGC 6302.

Fiber

Six minerals have been classified as "asbestos" including chrysotile of the serpentine class and those belonging to the amphibole class: amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite and actinolite.

Freeminer

Some large colliery gales were subsequently compulsorily purchased by the National Coal Board (NCB), but these remained under the Freemining system, with a royalty paid to the Freeminers, by the NCB, as a share of the minerals extracted.

Havasu Creek

It is named after D. W. "James" Mooney, a miner, who in 1882 (according to his companions) decided to mine the area near Havasu Falls for minerals.

Israel Chemicals

After Israel's independence in 1948, the extraction of minerals from the Dead Sea carried on with the establishment of Dead Sea Works Ltd.

Jadarite

Exploration geologists from Rio Tinto Exploration discovered the mineral as small rounded nodules in drill core, and after being unable to match it with previously known minerals enlisted the expertise of Chris Stanley, from the Natural History Museum, who later described it as being unique to mineralogy.

Kengtung Township

The existence of minerals was reported by the sawbwa, or chief, to Francis Garnier in 1867, but none is worked or located.

Klaus Lackner

Trained as a theoretical physicist, he has made a number of contributions to the field of Carbon Capture and Storage since 1995, including early work on the sequestration of carbon dioxide in silicate minerals and zero emission power plant design.

Kunstkamera

In 1716 Peter established the mineral cabinet of Kunstkamera, depositing there a collection of 1195 minerals which he had bought from Gotvald, a Danzig doctor.

Lower Silvermine River Wetlands

Alien vegetation is still a threat, as is the excessive proliferation of the indigenous Bulrush (Typha) which is caused by unnatural quantities of minerals and nutrients being washed into the wetland from urban storm water.

Mértola Municipality

Agricultural products grown in the villae nearby and valuable minerals (silver, gold and tin) obtained from the lower Alentejo region were sent from the fluvial port of Mértola via the Guadiana to Southern Hispania and the Mediterranean.

Mineral industry of Panama

The only metallic mine operating in Panama is Petaquilla Minerals Molejon epithermal gold deposit on the Ley 9, 1997 property in Panama in Colón Province.

Minerals Yearbook

The Minerals Yearbook is an annual publication from the US Geological Survey.

MoonBaseOne

The current version of the game allows the player to compete in two adventures aimed at mining the lunar Regolith to find minerals, build additional mining robots, and complete adventures for other characters.

Mount Pleasant Caldera

On June 25, 2008, Geodex Minerals Ltd., a gold venture firm, announced the results of a 2007 - early 2008 diamond drilling program on the west side of Mount Pleasant.

National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2013

The bill would require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the United States Forest Service to take certain actions aimed at streamlining the process for obtaining permits to extract minerals from federal lands.

Navoiy

The province possesses rich minerals and raw materials resources – Muruntau gold-bearing field, silica sand fields (of more than 1.5 billion tons), deposits of granite (1.9 billion cubic meters), marble (420 million cubic meters), phosphorites (1.5 billion tons) and many others.

Neptunium

In 1938, Horia Hulubei, a Romanian physicist; and Yvette Cauchois, a French chemist; claimed to have discovered element 93 via spectroscopy in minerals.

Newmains

The Coltness Iron Works was established in 1837 by industrialist, Henry Houldsworth who, foreseeing the gradual demise of the once booming cotton industry, decided to diversify into minerals.

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre is a regional space centre established in September, 2000 by joint initiative of Department of space, Government of India and North Eastern Council to expedite the usage of remote sensing technology to discover natural minerals uncovered in the North-Eastern states of India and to promote overall growth of North Eastern states of India using space science and technology.

NSW Minerals Council

The Minerals Council, headed by CEO Stephen Galilee, has run a number of campaigns recently highlighting, in their opinion the social and economic benefits conveyed on the Hunter Valley by the mining industry, especially the coal mining industry, in the face of campaigning by locals, farmers and environmentalists, concerned about Mining's impacts food & water supply, Coal dust health impacts, the destruction of Natural heritage and coals impact on Climate Change .

Oil exploration in Puntland

In January 2007, the Puntland administration, which was then led by President Mohamud Muse Hersi, signed the Puntland Product Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Range Resources Limited and the Canmex Minerals subsidiary Canmex Holdings (Bermuda) II Limited.

Peter Lu

led to his winning national gold medals in the "Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils" event at four National Science Olympiad tournaments.

Plymouth porcelain

William Cookworthy, a Quaker Pharmacist of Plymouth, was greatly interested in locating in Cornwall and Devon minerals similar to those described by Père François Xavier d'Entrecolles, a Jesuit missionary who worked in China during the early eighteenth century, as forming the basis of Chinese porcelain.

Quintinite

2H occurs in carbonatite at Jacupiranga, São Paulo, Brazil, in the Jacupiranga mine and 3T occurs with minerals like gonnardite and donnayite.

R. N. Baskin

In route for California, Baskin visited the Little Cottonwood mining district with Thomas Hearst and saw possibilities in the minerals of Utah Territory and decided to stay.

Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine

On 9 December 2009, BHP Billiton sold the operation to Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals for US$340 million.

Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals

Collections include petrified wood, various fossils, fluorescent minerals, meteorites, zeolites, and a variety of other minerals.

Ringwoodite

It was named after the Australian earth scientist Ted Ringwood (1930–1993) who studied polymorphic phase transitions in the common mantle minerals, olivine and pyroxene, at pressures equivalent to depths as great as about 600 km.

Saurabh Patel

Considered to be one of the most educated ministers serving in the cabinet, he holds the portfolios for Energy & Petrochemicals, Mines & Minerals, Cottage Industry, Salt Industry, Printing, Stationery, Planning, Tourism, Civil Aviation and Labour & Employment.

Selters

Artificial "selters waters" with added minerals have been created to make competition, thus helping to establish the fame of the original water as an international reference of soda water, e.g. by Torbern Bergman who made thorough analyses of mineral waters and in 1775 presented how to make carbonated water to mimic genuine mineral waters.

Sizer

Crusher, equipment to break and reduce the size of rocks, coals, overburden or other minerals

Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals

These ship parts are made up of 3 Rare Minerals, Titanium, which takes on the appearance of a Stack of Metal Sheets, Metalium, which takes on the appearance of a Meteorite with Energy Lines strung across it, and Marble, which takes on the form of a Blue-ish Elliptical shape.

Stewart Blusson

They found kimberlitic indicator minerals near Lac de Gras in the Northwest Territories in 1985, and their first kimberlite at Point Lake in 1991.

Stone sheep

Stone's Sheep are primarily found in Northern British Columbia and can often be seen by travellers licking minerals along the side of the Alaska Highway in areas such as Summit Lake, Stone Mountain Provincial Park and Muncho Lake Provincial Park.

Susanne Kriemann

Where various minerals, which are essential for contemporary technology, had already been found in 1887, the artist now took numerous pictures in the area of Barringer Hill.

Thomas Rackett

In 1794 and 1796 he accompanied Charles Hatchett and William George Maton in a tour through the western counties and collected minerals.

Tiradentes

Living in a state rich in gold, Tiradentes used the knowledge he acquired about minerals to enter the public service (he achieved the ranks of alferes, low in the hierarchy of the epoch), and he was sent to missions in cities along the road between Vila Rica (the capital of Minas Gerais) and Rio de Janeiro; this road was the "open vein" used to export most of the gold to Portugal.

William Knox D'Arcy

In 1900 he agreed to fund a search for oil and minerals in Persia headed by Wolff, Kitabgi and Cotte.


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