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Mineral resources. A 'Mineral Resource' is a concentration or occurrence of material of intrinsic economic interest in or on the Earth's crust in such form, quality and quantity that there are reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction. [ 7] Mineral Resources are further sub-divided, in order of increasing geological confidence, into ...
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., often called Freeport, is an American mining company based in the Freeport-McMoRan Center, in Phoenix, Arizona. The company is the world's largest producer of molybdenum, a major copper producer and operates the world's largest gold mine, the Grasberg mine in Papua, Indonesia .
Pebble mining project. / 59.89722°N 155.29528°W / 59.89722; -155.29528. Pebble Mine is the common name of a proposed copper -gold- molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark. [ 1] It was discovered in 1987, optioned by Northern Dynasty Minerals in 2001, explored in 2002 ...
In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element. Some "minerals" are essential for life, but most are not. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Minerals are one of the four groups of essential nutrients; the others are vitamins, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. [ 4] The five major minerals in the human body are calcium, phosphorus ...
Surface mining. Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral is removed through shafts or ...
Mineral Revolution. The farm near Johannesburg where gold was first discovered in 1886. The Mineral Revolution is a term used by historians to refer to the rapid industrialisation and economic changes which occurred in South Africa from the 1860s onwards. The Mineral Revolution was largely driven by the need to create a permanent workforce to ...
Crystals of serandite, natrolite, analcime, and aegirine from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form. [ 1][ 2] The geological definition ...
Resource curse. The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals) having less economic growth, less democracy, or worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources. [ 1]