Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral of a brownish-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, also massive, in Greenland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.
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- noun mineralogy A red
silicate mineral that forms inalkaline igneous rocks such asnepheline syenites .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Red Wine complex has a considerable amount of the mineral eudialyte , which is known around the world to be a potential source of heavy rare earth elements.
Expert Addresses Rare Earth Element Supply Hysteria - Seeking Alpha 2010
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The placer gravels contain abundant chevkinite, eudialyte, ilmenite, monazite, tscheffkinite, and zircon and minor to trace allanite, cassiterite and thorite.
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Pink eudialyte and thorite occur as disseminations and blebs in the dyke.
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The prospect consists of thin uranium and thorium-enriched veins in a eudialyte-bearing, hornblende diorite dyke that intrudes into the contact zone between the Windy Fork Complex and Dillinger clastic rocks.
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Beginning with the upper-syenite through to the basal portion dominated by calc-alkaline rocks, we firstly encounter a zone dominated by eudialyte (a mineral that contains up to 10% rare earth oxides
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