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Keywords:
Mineral,
Valuable,
Occurrence,
Exploitation,
Invite
A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.
An accumulation of oil, gas or other minerals which is capable of production.
Mineral deposit or ore deposit is used to designate a natural occurrence of a useful mineral, or an ore, in sufficient extent and degree of concentration to invite exploitation.
is a volume of rock that has been defined in three dimensions, containing valuable mineralization, classified into resource and reserve categories.
Used in reference to an economic accumulation of minerals.
An accumulation of certain minerals within a rock formation.
minerals that have been accumulated on the earth's surface by any process
It is an accumulation of minerals within a rock formation.
a coherent geological body such as a mineralized body.
An underground source of concentrated minerals. A mineral deposit is made up of ore minerals, which carry the metal, and gangue, or worthless, minerals formed along with the ore minerals. Mineralization becomes ore when the minerals are present insufficient quantity (or tonnage) and adequate quality (or grade) to be recovered profitably.
A mineralized body which has been physically delineated by sufficient drilling, trenching, and/or underground work, and found to contain a sufficient average grade of metal or metals to warrant further exploration and/or development expenditures; such a deposit does not qualify as a commercially minable ore body or as containing ore reserves, until final legal, technical, and economic factors have been resolved.
A mass of naturally occurring mineral material, usually of economic value, without regard to mode of origin. Even such organic fuels as coal and petroleum are sometimes called mineral deposits.
An anomalous occurrence of a specific mineral or minerals within the Earth's crust
A body of rock containing valuable minerals; usage generally restricted to zones of mineralization whose size has been wholly or partly determined through sampling.
A naturally occurring accumulation of minerals that may be considered economically valuable;
Mineral body that can be mined profitably.
a concentrated aggregate of one or more minerals, especially one of potential economic value; a mass of some mineral in rock or in the ground. [AHDOS
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