GARNIERITE

gärˈnēərītˌ, pale apple-green mineral, chemically a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesium. An important ore of nickel, it is found in New Caledonia, Russia, and S Africa. In the United States it occurs in Oregon and North Carolina.

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Industrialization of Latin America
Book by Lloyd J. Hughlett; McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1946
Subjects: Latin America--Industries
...Minas Geraes, the Companhia Brasileira de Nickel is working a garnierite property, using a 20-ton electric furnace to produce 20...at Ipanema are said to contain about 1,600,000 tons of garnierite ore. General Considerations. --Transportation and loading...
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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...hinge q.v. . garnet paper Build. . Sandpaper q.v. . garnierite Min. . A bright-green nickeliferous silicate of magnesium...rocks as a decomposition product of olivine. In external form garnierite resembles chalcedony, and differs from chrysolite chiefly...
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The History and Use of Our Earth's Chemical Elements: A Reference Guide
Book by Robert E.Krebs; Greenwood Press, 1998
...ore. One is the iron/nickel sulfide ores called pentlandite and pyrrhotite. The other ore is an oxide of nickel called garnierite. Nickel ores are found in Ontario, Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Norway. Traces of nickel exist in soils...
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Principles of Field and Mining Geology
Book by James Donald Forrester; J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1946
Subjects: Geology--Field Work, Mining Geology
...Rhodonite * Manganite ? Alabandite * Psilomelane * Pyrolusite Braunite Nickel Millerite Pentlandite * Niccolite * Bravoite ? Garnierite * * Always hypogene or supergene or oxidized according to column in which it is placed. where a supergene chalcocite zone...
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A Textbook of Geology
Book by Amadeus W. Grabau; D.C. Heath, 1920
Subjects: Geology
...Niccolite NiAs. haxagonal brittle 5.-5.5 metallic copper red brsh blk. opaque 7.3-7.67 tarnishes, massive Silicate Garnierite H 2 Ni. Mg SiO 4 .H 2 O friable 2.-3. varnish-like to dull green to greenish lt. gn.-white opaque 2.27-2...
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newspaper articles on: Garnierite  - 4 results

 
 
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Mining Firm's Rights Offering to Start May 15
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 5, 2007
Subjects: Mineral industry--Securities, Mining industry--Securities, Stock offerings
...nickel and cobalt assets worldwide. Geograce also signed a new memorandum of agreement with Garnierite Mining Inc. to acquire 100 percent of Garnierite or its mining rights over the nickel property in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.
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P/$ Rate Closes at P48.71 to $ 1
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 3, 2007
...following its recent signing of a memorandum of agreement with Garnierite Mining Inc to acquire 100 percent of the issued and outstanding...Palawan. Geograce told the stock exchange it has offered Garnierite a sharefor-share or property-for-share swap agreement...
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P/$ Rate at P48.155/$ 1
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 26, 2007
...having talks about this with a major investment house. Geograce is in the process of acquiring the nickel mining rights of Garnierite Mining Inc the southern province of Bukidnon. It has already acquired Garnierites nickel rights in the western province of...
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P/$ Rate Closes at P48.84 to $ 1
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 25, 2007
...hectares of property in Zambales with nickel potential. The memorandum of agreement was recently signed by GEO officers with Garnierite Mining Inc., mining rights owner of the 12, 957 hectare property in Zambales, giving GEO 100 percent of Garnierites rights...


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encyclopedia articles on: Garnierite  - 2 results

 
 
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Garnierite
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GARNIERITE gar ne rit , pale apple-green mineral, chemically a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesium. An important ore of nickel...
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Nickel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...engines. Nickel occurs in a number of minerals; its chief ores are pentlandite and pyrrhotite (nickel-iron sulfides) and garnierite (nickel-magnesium silicate). Nickel is present in most meteorites. It is also found in trace amounts in plants and animals...


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