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GANGUE [2 records]

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Record 1 2006-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
DEF

The worthless rocks or minerals with which ore minerals are usually intergrown.

CONT

... to obtain a pure metal, it may be necessary to remove the gangue or worthless part of the ore ...

CONT

At Coquimbo, Chili, gold is found in a matrix of carbonate of copper.

OBS

In classifying material as gangue ..., care must be used, for what is gangue in one place may be valuable elsewhere; and gangues may have important byproducts when milled and refined.

PHR

Barren gangue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
DEF

Ensemble des roches ou des minéraux non utiles qui sont associés aux minerais.

CONT

[...] le minerai lui-même est enveloppé d'une gangue non métallique non dépourvue de valeur. Ces gangues sont le plus souvent constituées de quartz, de sulfates [...], de carbonates [...], de fluorine ou spath fluor et d'apatite.

CONT

À ces minéraux contenant le ou les métaux sont associés des minéraux et des roches stériles [...] appelées gangue. L'ensemble gangue et minéraux contenant les métaux exploités constitue le minerai métallifère.

PHR

Gangue stérile.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minerales varios (Minas metálicas)
DEF

Materia inútil que acompaña a los minerales o que rodea a las gemas en su criadero.

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Record 2 2005-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Various Metal Ores
DEF

The valueless stone that occurs with the valuable minerals in lodes and veins.

CONT

It is probably unnecessary to mention quartz as the most universally auriferous veinstone; but it must not be supposed that all quartz is auriferous, nor that all gold is quartzose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
DEF

Partie rocheuse sans valeur qui entoure un minerai.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Minerales varios (Minas metálicas)
DEF

Cascote. Material sobrante tras extraer de la mina el mineral. Se considera un residuo sólido de desecho.

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