Look up: Garnierite

1. garnierite
   [n] - a green mineral consisting of hydrated nickel magnesium silicate
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2. Garnierite
   Gar'ni·er·ite noun [ Named after the French geologist Garnier .] (Min.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
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3. garnierite
   <chemical> An amorphous mineral of apple-green colour; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel. ... Origin: Named after the French geologist Garnier. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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4. Garnierite
   • (n.) An amorphous mineral of apple-green color; a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia. It is an important ore of nickel.
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5. garnierite
   (from the article `mineral deposit`) ...peridotites are subjected to lateritic weathering, nickel released from atomic substitution in the primary igneous silicate minerals can be ... ...economical. Owing to this method of formation, laterite deposits are found near the surface as a soft, frequently claylike material, with nickel ... ...
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6. garnierite
   garnierite (gär'nēurīt") , pale apple-green mineral, chemically a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesium. An important ore of nickel, it is found in New Caledonia, Russia, and S Africa. In the United States it occurs in Oregon and North Carolina.
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7. Garnierite
   Garnierite is an ore of nickel. It's probably formed as an alteration of nickel bearing peridotites. It has a nice apple green colour and the formulae (Ni,Mg)6Si4O10(OH)8. It has a relative hardness of 4. It is named after the French geologist Jules Garnier.
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8. Garnierite
   `Garnierite` is a general name for a green nickel ore which is found in pockets and veins within weathered and serpentinized ultramafic rocks. The name was given by Jules Garnier who first described it 1864 for an occurrence in New Caledonia. It forms by lateritic weathering of ultramafic rocks and ...
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