Their role is to delineate ore from waste so that a cost-effective mine plan can be implemented on a mine-site. Responsibilities include geologically mapping the ore body, its boundaries and variability, and performing what is known as a mineral inventory ...
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Barite is the primary, naturally occurring, barium-based mineral. Barium, atomic number 56, derives its name from Greek and means heavy. Barite is also known as baryte, and in Missouri is known as “tiff”. The primary countries in which commercial deposits ...
Back in 1965 or 1966 while looking for geodes in northeast Missouri, I noticed a small black object glistening in the water in the Fox River. Thinking I had found a really shiny pebble, I reached into the water only ...
he major products from porphyry copper deposits are copper and molybdenum or copper and gold. The term porphyry copper now includes engineering as well as geological considerations; It refers to large, relatively low grade, epigenetic, intrusion-related deposits that can be mined ...
Hydrothermal mineral deposits are those in which hot water serves as a concentrating, transporting, and depositing agent. They are the most numerous of all classes of deposit. Hydrothermal deposits are never formed from pure water, because pure water is a poor ...