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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black tin

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, 4(SnO 2 ) ; rutile group; adamantine; reddish brown to black; forms prismatic crystals, or massive concentric fibrous structure (wood tin); sp gr, 7.03; occurs in veins ...

A tetragonal mineral, 4(TiO 2 ) ; trimorphous with rutile and brookite; brown, greenishgray, or black; in hydrothermal veins around granite pegmatites, as an alteration of titanium minerals, and as ...

jalpaite

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, Ag 3 CuS 2 ; forms intergrowths with argentite in the Black Hawk District, Grant County, NM.

mellite

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, Al 2 (C 6 (COO) 6 ).16H 2 O; resinous; honey yellow; forms nodules in brown coal. Also spelled melinite, mellilite. (Not melite.)

honey stone

Mining; General mining

A tetragonal mineral, Al 2 (C 6 (COO) 6 ).16H 2 O; resinous; honey yellow; forms nodules in brown coal. Also spelled melinite, mellilite. (Not melite.)