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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- i-minerals inc. (TSX.V: IMA)(Pink Sheets: IMAHF) (the "Company") has been advised by Mineral Research Laboratory at North Carolina State University that the pilot plant commissioned to manufacture quartz products is in operation. The objective of this pilot plant work is to make quartz products of different purities for testing in a variety of quartz consuming markets. Over the past six years MRL has completed several phases of...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- i-minerals inc. (TSX.V: IMA) (PINK SHEETS: IMAHF) (the "Company") announces that further to the Company's press release of December 1, 2010, wherein it announced the calculation of an inferred resource together with the results of a Preliminary Economic Analysis (the "PEA") on the Company's Bovill Kaolin deposit, in-fill drilling has commenced with the objective of upgrading portions of the inferred resource to an indicated...
SurvivingMesothelioma.com reports that the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin has concluded that chrysotile asbestos has caused mesothelioma and a ban of asbestos is needed to stop mesothelioma. (PRWEB) September 15, 2011 SurvivingMesothelioma.com reports that the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin has concluded that chrysotile asbestos has caused mesothelioma and a ban of asbestos is needed to stop...
RENO, Nev., Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Potash America, Inc. (OTCBB: PTAM), (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, subject to several minor technical issues, it has commenced the closing process in Nevada. The Company has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of 39 Mineral Claims in Sodaville, Nevada, and expects the closing process to be completed in the next few weeks. The Company, having completed its due diligence via geologic and agronomic studies, has agreed to...
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Minerals, Inc. (the "Company") (OTC BB: AMNL) is pleased to announce the appointment of William Gleeson as the Company's General Counsel. In his capacity as General Counsel, Mr. Gleeson will draw on his 40+ years of experience practicing securities, corporate, and mergers and acquisitions law to assist the Company with its continued development as the premier global producer of Halloysite Clay. Mr. Gleeson began his legal career as a...
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Minerals, Inc. (the "Company") (OTCBB: AMNL) is pleased to announce the launch of its updated corporate website located at www.appliedminerals.com. Over the last three years, as the Company has made significant investment to become a leading global producer and application developer of halloysite clay products, it has also focused significant effort on the development of a corporate website that, in our opinion, will become the premier source...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- i-minerals inc. (TSX.V: IMA , US OTC: IMAHF) announces it has received initial results from Dorfner Anzaplan ("Dorfner"), a specialty quartz testing laboratory in Germany. Dorfner's initial work included a detailed analysis of the quartz product derived from the primary clay material from the Company's Bovill Kaolin Project. The material was first processed at Ginn Mineral Research in Sandersville, Georgia, wherein the clay fraction...
RENO, Nev., May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Potash America, Inc. (OTCBB: PTAM) (the "Company") announced today that during mid-March, the company entered into a Letter Of Intent covering the purchase of 100% of the potash claims located in Newfoundland, Canada title 018321M that is part of the historic St. Finton's Potash Intercept. The Company joins several other junior miners in this area. The historical data and due diligence reviewed by the Company indicates that the Company intends to...
(PRZCF.OTCBB) (PH0.FRANKFURT) (TSXV.GR) VANCOUVER, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - GREENLIGHT RESOURCES INC. (TSXV.GR), announces that it has received preliminary results from its mapping and prospecting on its Brazil Lake Lithium and Rare Metal property in Nova Scotia. Three new primary target areas have been identified, which are in addition to the known North and South pegmatite dikes which are currently being drilled. The three new targets, identified by pegmatite boulder float...
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Biotite is a common phyllosilicate mineral that contains potassium, magnesium, iron and aluminium. It is sometimes called "iron mica" and is found in granitic rocks, gneisses, and schists. Like other mica minerals, biotite has a highly perfect basal cleavage, its flexible sheets easily flaking off. It has a hardness of 2.5 - 3, a specific gravity of 2.7 - 3.1, is colored greenish to brown or black, and can be transparent to opaque. Biotite is occasionally found in large sheets, especially in...
Kaolinite is a mineral with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet linked through oxygen molecules to one octahedral sheet of alumina octahedra. It is also known as china clay and kaolin (高嶺土 in pinyin: gao1 ling3 tu3), named after Gaoling ("High Hill"), Jingde Town, Jiangxi, China. It is a soft, earthy, usually white mineral (dioctahedral phyllosilicate clay), produced by the chemical weathering of feldspar. In...
The mica group of minerals includes several closely related materials having highly perfect basal cleavage. All are monoclinic with a tendency towards pseudo-hexagonal crystals and are similar in chemical composition. The highly perfect cleavage, which is the most prominent characteristic of mica, is explained by the hexagonal sheet-like arrangement of its atoms. The word "mica" is thought to be derived from the Latin word micare, meaning to shine, in reference to the brilliant appearance...
Muscovite, also known as potash mica, is a phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium. It has a highly perfect basal cleavage yielding remarkably thin laminae (sheets), which are often highly elastic. Muscovite has a hardness of 2 - 2.25 and a specific gravity of 2.76 - 3. It can be colorless or tinted through grays, browns, greens, yellows, or rarely violet or red, and can be transparent or translucent. The green form is called Fuchsite, KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2. Muscovite is the most...
Serpentine is a group of common rock-forming hydrous magnesium iron phyllosilicate ((Mg,Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4) minerals. In mineralogy, serpentine may refer to any of 20 minerals belonging to the serpentine group. Owing to admixture, these minerals are not always easy to individualize, and distinctions are not usually made. There are three important aggregate structures of serpentine: antigorite, chrysotile and lizardite. Overview Serpentine is said to owe its name either to its serpent-like...
