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    A Short Summary On Onyx

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    of the mineral known as chalcedony. It is a banded mineral, which means that the layering of the rock that formed it has caused “bands” of different colors to appear. Many people mistake onyx for a type of agate, which is another type of chalcedony, but where agate has curved bands onyx has parallel bands instead. Onyx is found in nearly every color, though bands of black and white are the most common. When onyx is banded with red it is called sardonyx. While onyx is a fairly common mineral in…

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    Labradorite Research Paper

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    Labradorite has such a mystical appearance, it can seem like such an ordinary looking rock but with just a slight tilt of your head, the most beautiful flashes of colourful light appear. It is no wonder that this mystical appearance has inspired legends and was used in healing potions by the Inuit people of Labrador. As a fashion accessory it’s grey/iridescent color makes it a great item to go with just about any attire. Labradorite Physical Properties What is Labradorite? Labradorite is…

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    Kalgoorlie Gold Mining

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    Flotation: To collect the gold, chemicals are added to the slurry to gather it into a concentrate form. The chemicals attach to certain minerals in the slurry and the slurry is then pumped into large tanks known as flotation cells. Air is then added to the bottom of the cells to rise through the slurry picking up the hydrophobic chemicals added earlier. Once it reaches the surface, it creates…

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    intensive and polluting to produce. …??? Caesar stone is a stone manufactured to create surfaces such as benchtops, splashbacks, bathroom vanities, wall panelling, and furniture and cupboard doors. 93% of Caesar Stone is made up of natural quartz, a hard mineral composed of sand, gravel, pebbles, stone and crushed rock. Quartz is abundant in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and is also found around…

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    Salt In Ugly Times

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    Salt is a unique yet very flexible substance that the earth and most inhabitants need to survive. Since early times it has been a key part of a social and cultural aspects of life. salt is even used in the bible to state the importance of the human creation from the heavenly father. Make your bed - “you search for something that can give you solace, that can motivate you to begin your day, that can be a sense of pride in ugly times.” Refer the bible with salt and the lord gives salt the ultimate…

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    Adair Park Field Trip was a really great experience where you get to see many different types of rocks and many diverse examples of minerals. This trip happened on Saturday November 1, 2014. Several geology classes went to the field trip for the expedition, with the purpose of learning the different types of each rock and its minerals and also to identify the stones from oldest to youngest. The group leaders of this trip were several professors of geology. Professor Croxen, Garrett, Dr. B, did…

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    documentary is to inform the audience about gemstones. I didn’t know specific information about gemstones. During the documentary I learned that near the Earth's surface many gemstones are formed when minerals react with water and later on are dissolved. The evaporation causes the minerals to form. Gemstones are produced when the water is mixed with sandstones. Amethyst is a purple crystalline quartz. The Agates is a cryptocrystalline which comes in…

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    are hosted by reduced-facies marine or lacustrine rocks such as green, black, or gray shale, siltstone, thinly-laminated tidal facies or reefoid carbonate rocks, and dolomitic shale. The deposits consist of stratabound, disseminated copper sulfide minerals that occur in reduced-facies sedimentary rocks, which overlie, or are interbedded with, red-bed sedimentary sequences or subaerial basalt flows. Copper is mobilized in the red beds by oxidized brines and is derived from reduction of sulfate in…

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    First Mineral: My first mineral of choice is Titanium. Titanium is a metal that was discovered in 1791 by William Gregor. A few common properties are its low density, inflexibility, resistant to extreme temperature, and corrosion. Ti is titanium chemical formula. Titanium is vital in my everyday uses for instance my newly purchased wallet, Apple laptop that I use for school and the golf cart I drive around the park. Dentist use titanium for patients who receive teeth implants. Titanium powder…

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    The chemists' main objection focused on two isotopes of the element neodymium. By measuring the relative abundances of the isotopes in a rock, geochemists can tell whether the rock originated in the mantle lithosphere -- the slice of the North American jelly sandwich that, according to Bird, the Farallon Plate had dragged away. When the chemists checked the neodymium, however, the rocks proclaimed that the mantle lithosphere is very much intact. The evidence was compelling; many of Bird's…

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