He investigated the transition strata of the Tarantaise, wrote on the position of the granite rocks of Mont Blanc, and on the lead minerals of Derbyshire and Cumberland.
Auriferous quartz and traces of other minerals have been discovered, but not in sufficient quantity to repay the cost of mining.
Salvadorean Bureau of Statistics, and which shows the number of mines of each Department and the minerals which they possess, will be of some interest.
But the law decided they could claim little more than a right of way, and that the original landowners might still work the minerals underneath.
But let us look somewhat more closely into this theory that canals are better adapted than railways for the transport of minerals or heavy merchandise, calling for the payment of a low freight.
The minerals of the scale, therefore, are so arranged that each will scratch any other mineral of lower number in the scale, or be scratched by any of higher number.
Monazite, samarskite, thorite and other rare minerals contain these elements.
In the north of the peninsula is the desert Paran, a desolate limestone plateau, bounded on the south by a tract of low sandstone mountains, ravines, and valleys rich in minerals which had been worked as early as 3000 B.
The term hardness, as applied tominerals and other solid bodies, is used to indicate resistance to being scratched or the power to scratch.
The great industrial activity of the country very largely depends on the fact that these two mineralsare found together, and moreover in proximity to navigable water-courses.
Minerals and precious metals are said to be abundant, but only salt and petroleum are obtained.
Each mineral or special class of minerals has its own definite geometrical shape or crystalline form.
Meanwhile Schmidt and Madame Curie independently found that the same properties were associated with thorium, its compounds and the minerals containing it.
It is in the primitive rocks, however, that minerals abound.
North Carolina will thus be seen to be a State of vast resources, whether we regard the variety and value of her natural or cultivated productions, the immense range of her minerals or her facilities for manufacturing industries.
How many kinds of minerals are located in this State?
Leaving thirty women at the fort, he ascended the Saguenay with seventy men in spring and explored as far as Lake St. John, where the village of Roberval commemorates his feat; but he found no minerals and lost eight men running rapids.
Signs of minerals they seek, rushing pellmell through the woods, gleeful as boys out of school.
Failing to carry any minerals home, Cartier felt he must have witnesses to his report.
Elizabeth deeds to Gilbert all that old domain discovered by John Cabot, reserving only one fifth of the mineralshe may find; and she sends him a present of a golden anchor as a Godspeed.
He was thinking of those minerals which the Indians said were at the head waters of the Saguenay.
Defn: A group ofminerals having, a micaceous structure.
Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc.
It also occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc.
Defn: The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
Defn: Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena.
Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils, but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth.
It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
Defn: A minute inclosed crystal, often observed when minerals or rocks are examined in thin sections under the microscope.
Defn: The doctrine or science of the origin of the minerals composing the globe.
Mineral right, the right of taking minerals from land.
Defn: The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
Beach sands rich in heavy minerals and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
However, overdependence on minerals and metals subjects the economy to fluctuations in world prices, and a lack of infrastructure deters trade and investment.
Despite several interesting hydrocarbon and minerals exploration activities, it will take several years before production can materialize.
It was only necessary to find a clayey limestone which contained a certain percentage of iron oxide and two other minerals known as silica and alumina.
With forty camels' load of costly ores and minerals forsure thou canst buy thousands more of camels.
And thus on the first and second space of time which became days Jehovah formed the earth and laid up veins of the minerals after their kinds in their places, in perfect order.
When the pleasure of novelty went away, I employed my hours in examining the plants which grow in the valley, and the minerals which I collected from the rocks.
This was what Harding was going to attempt with the minerals which nature placed at his disposal.
Already a torrent of burning matter and liquefied minerals fell from the side of the mountain upon the meadows as far as the side of the palisade.
Certainly the mining of minerals in other parts of the world has shown the feasibility of operations at much greater depths than those mentioned.
Have you, in fact, ever seen one in a thousand of these minerals and fossils in situ?
Minerals abound, and several mines have been opened by English companies, especially in the province of Huelva, where the Tharsis and Rio Tinto copper-mines are situated.
The chiefminerals are slate, marble, limestone, and granite.
First, that "minerals be weighed only, seeing that measuring and gauging are sources of endless losses to the hewers.
The weighing of minerals clause was to provide against the "Rocking" customs such as had obtained at the Brancepeth Collieries, and which had caused the "Rocking" strike.
I was constantly bringing home pieces of stone andminerals picked up in the streets and on the mountains, and asking questions about their origin and history.
I've got some things that might interest you, too; rather a good collection of minerals gathered around here, for one thing: nearly two hundred specimens.
The bookcases had been consecrated to Science, it appeared, for in the nearer one dozens and dozens of birds' eggs peered forth from cotton-batting nests and in the other McNatt's collection of minerals was installed.
Theophrastus considered the medicinal uses of minerals as well as of plants.
Three years later he went to the University of Leipzig, but, true to his first enthusiasm, wrote in 1774 concerning the outward characteristics of minerals (Von den aeusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien).
However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying rocks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minerals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
