20 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Mining > Mineral mining
Mineral mining
The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth for economic interests.
Industry: Mining
Add a new termContributors in Mineral mining
Mineral mining
zavaritskite
Mining; General mining
A tetragonal mineral, BiOF ; at Sherlova Gory, East Transbaikal, Russia.
weddellite
Mining; General mining
A tetragonal mineral, Ca(C 2 O 4 ).2H 2 O ; in mud at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica; also as urinary calculi. Compare: whewellite
meta-uranospinite
Mining; General mining
A tetragonal mineral, Ca(UO 2 )(AsO 4 ) 2 .8H 2 O; meta-autunite group.
sincosite
Mining; General mining
A tetragonal mineral, Ca(VO) 2 (PO 4 ) 2 .5H 2 O ; a vanadium analog of the meta-autunite group; green; a source of vanadium.
deflagrating mixture
Mining; General mining
An explosively combustible mixture, as one containing niter.
Featured User
Featured blossaries
Sanket0510
0
Terms
22
Blossaries
25
Followers
10 Bizarre ways Dreams and Reality Intersect
Category: Science 1 1 Terms
1 Terms