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The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) was the primary United States Government agency conducting scientific research and disseminating information on the extraction, processing, use, and conservation of mineral resources.
Founded on May 16, 1910, through the Organic Act (Public Law 179), USBM's missions ...
A possibly hexagonal mineral, (Ce,La,Th)(Ti,Nb)(Al,Fe)(Si,P)<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>(OH)<sub>4</sub>.3H<sub>2</sub>O(?) ; metamict; at Mt. Karnasurt, Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Industry:Mining
A possibly hexagonal mineral, (Y,Th)<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>; olive green tarnishing to orange-yellow; occurs in Texas.
Industry:Mining
A possibly isometric mineral, Cu<sub>3</sub>Sb ; silver-white; sp gr, 8.8; reported from Lesbos Island, Greece.
Industry:Mining
A possibly monoclinic mineral, (Mg,Ni)<sub>2</sub>Si<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub>(OH)<sub>2</sub>(?) ; greenish blue; with talc in serpentinite from the Ural Mountains, Russia. (Not karpinskyite.)
Industry:Mining
A possibly monoclinic mineral, Be<sub>2</sub>TeO<sub>6</sub>.2H<sub>2</sub>O ; yellow to white; forms earthy encrustations.
Industry:Mining
A possibly monoclinic mineral, KAl(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>.11H<sub>2</sub>O .
Industry:Mining
A possibly monoclinic mineral, KAl(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>2</sub>.11H<sub>2</sub>O .
Industry:Mining
A possibly orthorhombic mineral, (Al,Fe)<sub>3</sub>(AsO<sub>4</sub>)(OH)<sub>6</sub>.5H<sub>2</sub>O ; forms thin encrustations at Liskear, Cornwall, U.K.
Industry:Mining
A possibly orthorhombic mineral, (Ce,Na,Ca)<sub>2</sub>(Ti,Nb)<sub>2</sub>O<sub>6</sub>; perovskite group; pseudocubic; Kola Peninsula, Russia.
Industry:Mining
A possibly orthorhombic mineral, (Mn,Mg)<sub>5</sub>Fe(Si<sub>3</sub>Fe)O<sub>10</sub>(OH)<sub>8</sub>; chlorite group; pseudohexagonal with basal cleavage; soft; with barite, berzeliite, and garnet in small hydrothermal veinlets cutting skarn at Laangban, Sweden.
Industry:Mining
