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Mineral mining
The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth for economic interests.
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comb texture
Mining; General mining
A texture in which individual crystals have their long axis perpendicular to the walls of a vein.
framboidal texture
Mining; General mining
A texture in which pellets form spheroidal aggregates resembling a raspberry.
hypidiomorphic texture
Mining; General mining
A texture of igneous rocks in which the greater proportion of the crystallized minerals have subhedral forms.
granule texture
Mining; General mining
A texture of iron formation in which precipitated or nonclastic granules are separated by a fine-grained matrix.
crystallographic texture
Mining; General mining
A texture of mineral deposits formed by replacement or exsolution, in which the distribution and form of the inclusions are controlled by the crystallography of the host mineral.
plaiting
Mining; General mining
A texture seen in some schists that results from the intersection of relict bedding planes with well developed cleavage planes.
knitted texture
Mining; General mining
A texture typical of the mineral serpentine in rocks where it replaces a clinopyroxene. Compare: lattice texture
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