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  • Open-Pit Mining - Mining Fundamentals
    Article - 25 Mar 2014
    Open-pit mining is a surface-mining operation in which rocks or minerals are extracted from the Earth by creating an open hole or pit in the Earth’s surface.
  • Caresite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 21 Oct 2013
    Caresite is a member of the quintinite group of minerals. The mineral was first discovered in 1997 from Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, as well as in the Corporation...
  • Barbosalite – Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 26 Aug 2013
    Barbosalite has been named to honor Aluizio Licinio de Miranda Barbosa, who is a Professor of Geology at the School of Mines, Ouro Preto, Brazil. It belongs to the Lazulite mineral group and forms a...
  • Afghanite – Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 19 Jul 2013
    Afghanite was named after the country – Afghanistan, where it was first discovered. It belongs to the cancrinite group.
  • Zussmanite – Occurrence, Properties and Distribution
    Article - 23 May 2013
    Zussmanite was discovered in the year 1964 in the Laytonville Quarry located in the Coastal Range of California, USA. This mineral is named after Jack Zussman, who is a professor at the University of...
  • Reyerite – Occurrence, Properties and Distribution
    Article - 3 May 2013
    Reyerite is named after Edouard Reyer, an Austrian geologist. It has a crystalline structure similar to minehillite. Glimer Zeolith is another name for reyerite.
  • Ettringite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 22 Feb 2013
    Ettringite is a hydrous calcium aluminum sulfate mineral first described in 1874 from Ettringer Bellerberg, Ettringen, Mayen, Eifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The mineral was named for its place of...
  • Tvedalite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 17 Jan 2013
    Tvedalite is an orthorhombic mineral containing silicon, oxygen, manganese, hydrogen, calcium and beryllium. It was first observed in Vevja larvikite quarry, Tvedalen, Brunlanes, Vestfold Co., Norway....
  • Zussmanite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 8 Jan 2013
    Zussmanite is a hydrated iron-rich silicate mineral occurring as pale green crystals with perfect cleavage. It was first discovered by Stuart Olof Agrell in the Laytonville quarry, Mendocino County,...
  • Bertrandite - Occurrence, Properties, and Distribution
    Article - 19 Dec 2012
    Bertrandite is a beryllium sorosilicate hydroxide often occurs as a replacement of beryl. It was discovered near Nantes, France in 1883 and named after Emile Bertrand, a French mineralogist.

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