cassiterite in a sentence
Examples
- Cassiterite production peaked at 1, 000 tonnes in 1990, but was under 700 tonnes in 2000.
- Distinctive accessory minerals include : fluorite, topaz, apatite, spinel, allanite, sphene and cassiterite.
- Associated minerals include cassiterite, scheelite, bismuth, quartz, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite.
- The method by which tin is produced is to head the tin mineral cassiterite ( SnO 2 ) with coke.
- Associated minerals include quartz, feldspar, spodumene, amblygonite, tourmaline, columbite, cassiterite, topaz and beryl.
- Cassiterite, coltan, and gold are being extracted from these mines and brought illegally to Goma through Masisi territory.
- Cassiterite ( SnO 2 ), oxidized tin, most likely was the original source of tin in ancient times.
- There is mining of copper, iron, manganese, gold, cassiterite ( tin ore ), and phosphates.
- Valuable mineral components often occurring with black sands are monazite, rutile, zircon, chromite, wolframite, and cassiterite.
- It was probably gathered in streams in Cornwall and Devon as cassiterite pebbles and traded in this raw, unrefined state.