Minerals can be described by a variable physical properties, which relate to its chemical structure and composition.

Minerals are chemical compounds, and as such they can be described by fixed or a variable formula.

Minerals can be described as brittle, ductile, malleable, sectile, flexible, or elastic.

Minerals in a sedimentary rock can have formed by precipitation during sedimentation or diagenesis.

Minerals such as ilmenite and magnetite are naturally magnetic, and so can be separated from non-magnetic particles using strong magnets.

Minerals can be obtained from asteroids, the lunar surface, or a planetary body.

Minerals in solution can harden around an intrusive object dropped in a crack or simply left on the ground if the source rock ( in this case, reportedly Ordovician ) is chemically soluble.

Minerals and the metals that can be extracted from them ( without further modification ) are also considered to belong into this category.

Minerals are also used in fertilizers to enrich the growth of agricultural crops.

Minerals such as catlinite and soapstone have also been used.

Several cases have sought accounting of such funds from the departments of Interior ( in which the Minerals Management Service also has a role ) and Treasury in what has been a 15-year-old lawsuit.

Overland Park is also home to the headquarters of Fortune 500 company YRC Worldwide, as well as Black & Veatch, Waddell & Reed, Examinetics, Ferrellgas, Ash Grove Cement Company, and Compass Minerals.

Crab Orchard is also home to a large limestone mine operated by Franklin Industrial Minerals.

Minerals and chemicals in one type of food may also inhibit absorption of iron from another type of food eaten at the same time.

The game begins with a briefing between a bald anonymous executive ( in later games named Dravis ) of the Post Terran Minerals Corporation ( PTMC ) and the player, a " Material Defender " ( revealed as MD1032 in the briefings, also using the callsign " Vertigo-1 ") hired on a mercenary basis to eliminate the threat of an alien computer virus infecting the robots used for off-world mining operations.

Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company.

Minerals, including sulfur, arsenic, lead, copper sulfate and gold are also consumed as prescribed.

The court also decided several cases relating to the historic 1974 joint sitting of the Parliament of Australia, including Cormack v Cope ( 1974 ) and the Petroleum and Minerals Authority case ( 1975 ).

Neptune Minerals in 2007 succeeded in recovering SMS sediment samples using a modified oil industry suction pump mounted on an ROV, also a world first.

It was also discovered during the 2011 Nevada Legislative hearings that the Nevada Department of Taxation's director, Dino DiCianno, never had the Tax Department under Gibbon's leadership conduct Net Proceeds of Minerals ( NPM ) tax audits of mining operations within Nevada.

He is also a member of the all-party groups for Financial Markets and Services, Middle Way ( hunting and animal welfare ), Minerals, Racing and Bloodstock Industries, Solvent Abuse, China, and Mongolia.

Minerals that have the same composition but different structures ( polymorphic minerals ) may also have epitaxic relations.

She also served on various portfolio Committees including Health, Minerals and Energy, Trade and Industry, Communications, the Rules Committee and the Code of Ethics.

Minerals that have emerged from the hot springs also color the ground yellow, red and green.

Caroli Primi of ever Blessed Memory, not only for the making of Iron into cast-works, and bars, but also for the Melting, Extracting, Refing and Reducing of all Mines, Minerals and.

In 2011, the company also announced a $ 70 million ( CAD ) investment in Rubicon Minerals, representing a 9. 2 % ownership stake and access to the Phoenix gold project located in the heart of Red Lake, Ontario.

Motsepe is also the founder of African Rainbow Minerals Platinum ( Proprietary ) Limited and ARM Consortium Limited which later equally split ownership with Anglo American Platinum Corp Ltd. From 2005, Motsepe ran as the Chairman of Teal Exploration and Mining Incorporated.

Lands and Mines was changed to Lands and Forests and he was also given the Mines and Minerals portfolio.

For instance, John Marvel, a lawyer in Elko, NV, represents mining clients, is a member of the Nevada Mining Association, receives income from Marvel Minerals ( according to his financial disclosure report ), and he is also on the Nevada Tax Commission, which is the head of the Nevada Department of Taxation-the regulatory agency that was supposed to be preventing the mining industry from participating in such unethical and arguably illegal behavior.

493 also makes various changes pertaining to the deductions available in calculating the Net Proceeds of Minerals Tax.

It also sold its World Minerals subsidiary to French company Imerys in 2005.

Minerals called zeolites also exhibit ion-exchange properties ; these minerals are widely used in laundry detergents.

Information, application forms, and assistance in filing may be obtained from the Office of Minerals Exploration, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D.C., or from the appropriate regional office listed below.

Minerals such as alkali feldspar, leucite, nepheline, sodalite, phlogopite mica, and apatite may be present in the groundmass.

Minerals associated with this include quartz, cristobalite and tridymite, which may all be present in volcanic ash.

In February 2009, the company, Scandinavian Highlands Holding A / S, published the results of geophysical investigations by its subsidiary, Harz Minerals GmbH, according to which hitherto unknown mineral deposits of the size of those at the Rammelsberg may be present, two kilometres west of the Rammelsberg ore deposits.

In March 1999, Dennis Thurston of the Minerals Management Service in Anchorage located what appeared to be wreckage in the shallows of Camden Bay, between Prudhoe Bay and Kaktovik.

A major part of the group, Bre-X Minerals Ltd. based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it was reported to be sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia ( on Borneo ).

Bre-X Minerals collapsed in 1997 after the gold samples were found to be a fraud.

In response the president of Manhattan Minerals, Graham Clow who had repeatedly agreed that if the people opposed the mine it wouldn't be built, was fired and the company has continued to try to convince the government of Peru to restart the project.

Minerals and volatiles could be mined from an asteroid or spent comet then taken back to Earth or used in space for space-construction materials.

The " Mineral Industry Surveys ," " Mineral Commodity Summaries ," and the " Minerals Yearbook " continued to be published.

Until 1928 some of the locomotives could also be found at St Blazey engine shed, Cornwall, where they worked on ex-Cornwall Minerals Railway branches, and also at Moorswater for working the Looe branch.