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- noun Plural form of
limonite .
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Examples
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They occur mainly as conglomerates and are generally classified as limonites.
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The limonites shown from Dutchess and Columbia counties included some fine specimens of stalactitic ore.
New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission DeLancey M. Ellis
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About 5 per cent of the world's iron ores are magnetites, and the remainder are limonites and iron carbonates.
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The limonites also occur here, as well as in the Ocoee rocks of Cherokee and Madison counties.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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The ores of Crowder's Mountain are limonites and magnetites, which have been but superficially explored; so that very little satisfactory information can be given concerning the value of the deposits.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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