Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hydrated oxid of cobalt which occurs in black amorthous masses. It is derived from the alteration of smaltite.
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Examples
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The DRC's heterogenite contains unprocessed copper and cobalt, often worked by artisanal miners.
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"All the diggers and military (on guard) fled ... leaving the sacks of heterogenite behind," when the team arrived, a local source told
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Mining experts claim that up to 90 percent of the exports of heterogenite - a compound of cobalt and copper traded in its raw form before being refined in South Africa and Zambia - elude DRC custom controls.
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Mikandji said the government wanted to encourage and develop ways to treat heterogenite and introduce greater regulation.
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In 2001, SOMIKA, a processor of heterogenite (copper and cobalt), set up operations in the Katanga region of the DRC.
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In 2001, SOMIKA, a processor of heterogenite (copper and cobalt), set up operations in the Katanga region of the DRC.
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"In all, 6,000 sacks of heterogenite have been seized near the
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“The Democratic Republic of Congo has the world’s purest and largest deposits of strategic minerals, including gold, coltan, niobium, cobalt, heterogenite and columbite.
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