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  • Thumbnail for Freibergite
    Freibergite is a complex sulfosalt mineral of silver, copper, iron, antimony and arsenic with formula (Ag,Cu,Fe)12(Sb,As)4S13. It has cubic crystals and...
    3 KB (156 words) - 23:28, 3 January 2024
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    8-inch (20 cm) thick bed of grey shale in the Permian Flowerpot Shale. The ore also carried some silver, as stromeyerite. Copper and silver occur in a sandstone...
    49 KB (6,340 words) - 12:56, 12 May 2024
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    Azurite is a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. During the early 19th century, it was also known as chessylite...
    17 KB (1,801 words) - 13:02, 4 January 2024
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    Freiberg Mining Field (category Mining in the Ore Mountains)
    are the ores blue lead (galena), zincblende (sphalerite), fool's gold (pyrite), arsenical iron (arsenopyrite), argentiferous grey copper ore (freibergite)...
    3 KB (348 words) - 03:03, 19 February 2023
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    Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from...
    54 KB (7,075 words) - 06:19, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bismuthinite
    consisting of bismuth sulfide (Bi2S3). It is an important ore for bismuth. The crystals are steel-grey to off-white with a metallic luster. It is soft enough...
    3 KB (188 words) - 18:52, 12 May 2024
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    used in the extraction of gold from ore. Dentistry has used alloys of mercury with metals such as silver, copper, indium, tin and zinc. Zinc amalgam finds...
    14 KB (1,738 words) - 15:18, 7 May 2024
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    also comprise other finding spots of the copper hoard culture. The copper ore used derives from different ore ranges in Rajasthan (Khetri), southern Haryana...
    15 KB (1,643 words) - 23:13, 15 May 2024
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    Levant Mine and Beam Engine (category Copper mines in Cornwall)
    were abandoned. silver bismuth calcspar aragonite vitreous copper ore or grey sulphuret of copper From Robert Hunt's Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom...
    17 KB (949 words) - 20:37, 4 February 2024
  • producing copper that was 99.25% pure. The purest copper is obtained by an electrolytic process, undertaken using a slab of impure copper as the anode...
    9 KB (1,230 words) - 15:00, 8 March 2024
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    Elizabeth Mine (category Copper mines in the United States)
    Mine was a copper mine located on the town line between the Town of Strafford and the Town of Thetford, in Orange County, Vermont. The ore deposit was...
    5 KB (399 words) - 21:52, 3 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of copper alloys
    Copper alloys are metal alloys that have copper as their principal component. They have high resistance against corrosion. Of the large number of different...
    22 KB (766 words) - 16:31, 27 April 2024
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    mundic, a word derived from cornish dialect and which also refers to a copper ore, as well as a form of deterioration in aggregate concrete made with mine...
    6 KB (488 words) - 01:14, 10 April 2024
  • Mount Isa Mines (category Copper mines in Queensland)
    to explore the lead–zinc ore body passed through almost 38 meters of copper mineralization with an average grade of 4.3% copper. While this was a very good...
    52 KB (6,847 words) - 04:46, 21 January 2024
  • the treatment of lower grade ores using the flotation method by Minerals Separation Limited of London. Copper sulphide ores in Northern Rhodesia became...
    15 KB (1,841 words) - 18:29, 12 March 2024
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    the copper ore from Okiep to the port. A small service town rapidly developed and was named Port Nolloth by Cape Colony Governor Sir George Grey, in honour...
    15 KB (1,443 words) - 14:27, 9 July 2023
  • Bent Coppers: The Inside Story of Scotland Yard's Battle Against Police Corruption is a non-fiction book by award-winning British journalist Graeme McLagan...
    7 KB (701 words) - 11:49, 1 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Smaltite
    species chloanthite (NiAs2). Smaltite occurs in veins with ores of cobalt, nickel, copper and silver. The best known localities are Cobalt, Ontario and...
    2 KB (214 words) - 16:34, 23 August 2021
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    molybdenite (MoS2). Molybdenum is mined as a principal ore and is also recovered as a byproduct of copper and tungsten mining. The world's production of molybdenum...
    71 KB (8,065 words) - 17:21, 16 May 2024
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    north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the city of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore and has been mined since the 5th millennium BCE. During early antiquity...
    24 KB (2,863 words) - 19:34, 26 April 2024
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