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Mining
Of or pertaining to the process or business of extracting materials, such as ore or minerals, from the earth's crust.
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canfieldite
Geology; Minerals
Canfieldite is a rare silver tin sulfide mineral with formula: Ag 8 SnS 6 . The mineral typically contains variable amounts of germanium substitution in the tin site and tellurium ...
smithsonite
Geology; Minerals
Smithsonite, or zinc spar, is zinc carbonate (ZnCO 3 ), a mineral ore of zinc. Historically, smithsonite was identified with hemimorphite before it was realised that they were two ...
cancrinite
Geology; Minerals
Cancrinite is a complex carbonate and silicate of sodium, calcium and aluminium with the formula Na 6 Ca 2 ((CO 3 ) 2
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