Cassiterite is a tin oxide mineral, SnO2. It is generally opaque, but it is translucent in thin crystals. Its luster and multiple crystal faces produce...
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linked the distant sources of tin to the markets of Bronze Age cultures. Cassiterite (SnO2), oxidized tin, most likely was the original source of tin in ancient...
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Nemophora cassiterites is a moth of the Adelidae family or fairy longhorn moths. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1907. It is found in India. Mikhail...
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so it does not normally need extensive processing to remove it; but cassiterite, the chief ore mineral of tin, is usually disseminated as very small...
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minerals being illicitly exported from the Congo include tungsten, tin, cassiterite, and coltan (which provides the tantalum for mobile phones, and is also...
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periodic table of elements. It is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, which contains stannic oxide, SnO 2. Tin shows a chemical similarity...
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inorganic compound with the formula SnO2. The mineral form of SnO2 is called cassiterite, and this is the main ore of tin. With many other names, this oxide of...
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muscovite rich rocks, which may be locally rich in topaz, tourmaline, cassiterite, fluorite, beryl, wolframite, siderite, molybdenite and other sulfide...
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Trade Organization. There is mining of copper, iron, manganese, gold, cassiterite (tin ore), and phosphates. These operations provide employment and generate...
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requires systematic techniques: tin must be mined (mainly as the tin ore cassiterite) and smelted separately, then added to hot copper to make bronze alloy...
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on a small scale. Smuggling of conflict minerals such as coltan and cassiterite, ores of tantalum and tin, respectively, helped to fuel the war in the...
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30% 10% 81 64 53 H060L30C10 Peat Brown 60° 30% 20% 90 61 41 H060L30C20 Cassiterite Brown 60° 30% 27% 98 60 31 H060L30C27 Zinc Grey 60° 40% 5% 101 91 85...
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dolomite, barite (source of barium), bauxite (source of aluminium), cassiterite (source of tin), and gold. In 1990 limestone, used in road construction...
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cinnabar (HgS), an ore of mercury; sphalerite (ZnS), an ore of zinc; cassiterite (SnO2), an ore of tin; and colemanite, an ore of boron. Gems are minerals...
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Carnallite Carnotite Carobbiite Carpathite Carpholite Carrollite Caryopilite Cassiterite Cattierite Cavansite Celadonite Celestine Celsian Cerite Cerium Cerussite...
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Utah and Chivinar in South America. It can be found with fluorite and cassiterite in various areas including the Ural and Ilmensky mountains of Russia...
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are large ore sources of tin and tungsten in the form of wolframite, cassiterite, stannite and scheelite. These are the leading source of copper ore....
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Bulgaria and Thrace in the late fifth millennium BC". Tin bronzes using cassiterite tin were subsequently reintroduced to the area some 1500 years later...
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Park. The city sits close to deposits of cassiterite, an ore used to obtain tin, as well as tungsten. Cassiterite is mined in the town of Rutongo, around...
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Kano State has different natural resources in abundant, these include Cassiterite Copper Gemstone Glass-sand Lead/Zinc Pyrochinre & Tantalite A2 (part...
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Lithium, Lithium oxide Yilgarn Craton, Kalgoorlie Terrane Wodgina Mt Cassiterite, Mt Francisco, Strelley Western Australia 21°10′29″S 118°40′35″E / 21...
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contributor, generating US$93 million in 2008. Minerals mined include cassiterite, wolframite, gold, and coltan, which is used in the manufacture of electronic...
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food. Among these materials include: Clay Gold Tin Feldspar Tantalite Cassiterite Marble Talc Dolomite Source: People awarded the Honorary citizenship...
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subsistence hunting. The mines in these nature reserves were producing cassiterite, gold, coltan and wolframite, and "most mines were controlled by armed...
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transition to solar and wind energy, digitalization, raised the demand for cassiterite (the main ore of tin used also for financing gold mining), manganese...
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centre for tin mining when the colonialists discovered huge deposits of cassiterite, the main ore for the metal. It is also the trading hub of the state...
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scarcely known except to connoisseurs, include andalusite, axinite, cassiterite, clinohumite, painite and red beryl. Gemstone pricing and value are governed...
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28°53′02″E / 1.558°S 28.884°E / -1.558; 28.884 Production Products Coltan Cassiterite Tourmaline Owner Company Société Minière de Bisunzu Sarl Website www...
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in a matrix of quartz, tourmaline, alkali feldspar, brown mica, and cassiterite. The name originates from the village of Luxulyan in Cornwall, United...
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hematite, malachite Reniform Irregular kidney-shaped spherical masses cassiterite, chalcedony, chrysocolla, hematite, hemimorphite fluorite, goethite,...
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