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(mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray mineral containing rhodium and sulfur..
... miassite (claeolite-biotite-syenite) in lovely sapphire-blue crystalline masses, and molybdenite is recorded from two localities. Among other minerals of more or less industrial interest are ilmenite, titanite, magnetite[…]
... miassite (biotite nepheline-syenite), and here is the original locality of the mineral ilmenite. The hills are pitted with little quarries, some of which are still worked for the various minerals got in the miassite and gneiss[…]
... rhodium minerals such as bowieite, genkinite or miassite are found, which are of no significance for technical production. Rhodium is most commonly found as a companion of sulfidic nickel-copper ores , which are mainly mined in[…]
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Miassite means (mineralogy) An isometric-hexoctahedral gray mineral containing rhodium and sulfur..
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... miassite (claeolite-biotite-syenite) in lovely sapphire-blue crystalline masses, and molybdenite is recorded from two localities. Among other minerals of more or less industrial interest are ilmenite, titanite, magnetite[…]
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