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This scale is a measure of a mineral's resistance to abrasion and is now known as the Mohs Scale of Hardness.
Mohs, Frederick 2009
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China's steel industry has opened annual iron-ore price talks with the mineral's big-three producers, calling for deep cuts to yearly prices and an early start to the next contract period.
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A mineral's composition refers to the kinds and proportions of elements making up the mineral.
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In assaying, which helps to determine a mineral's metal content, a sample is heated and mixed with lead.
Swindle Solved 2004
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Experts have warned that South Africa faces an epidemic of asbestos-related diseases, with tens-of-thousands of people believed to have been exposed to the mineral's deadly fibres.
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Exposure to asbestos dust causes incurable diseases such as cancer and asbestosis, the result of breathing in the mineral's needle-sharp microscopic fibres, which lodge in the lungs.
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Africa faced an epidemic of asbestos diseases, with tens of thousands of people estimated to have been exposed to the mineral's deadly fibres.
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South Africa faces an epidemic of asbestos diseases with tens of thousands of people estimated to have been exposed to the mineral's deadly fibres, experts have warned in a booklet issued ahead of next week's national asbestos summit.
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Johannesburg, for example, owes its existence to the mineral's discovery and over the last 10 years, the country has provided about 31 percent of the world's gold.
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The shape of a mineral's crystal is used to identify it.
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