Mineral mining

Mineral mining

The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth for economic interests.

Industry: Mining

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trippkeite

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, CuAs +3 2 O 4 ; excellent prismatic cleavage permitting crystals to be broken into flexible fibers; blue-green; at Atacama, Chile.

bandylite

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, CuB(OH) 4 Cl ; occurs as dark blue crystals in Chile.

A tetragonal mineral, CuFeSe 2 ; chalcopyrite group; forms a series with chalcopyrite; is metallic brass yellow; variably magnetic; with chalcopyrite, clausthalite, and naumannite in dolomite veins, ...

gallite

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, CuGaS 2 ; chalcopyrite group; forms grains and inclusions in germanite and renierite, and exsolution lamellae in sphalerite and pyrite-sphalerite assemblages at Tsumeb, Namibia, ...