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Definition of gangue in English English dictionary
- The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore
Quotations.
- {n} stony substances united with metals
- Those minerals which occur with the ore minerals but which have no value, such as quartz, calcite or pyrite
- The mineral or earthy substance associated with metallic ore
- Worthless rock or other material in which valuable minerals are found
- Worthless minerals mixed in with valuable ore
- Undesired or waste material in an ore
- The non-valuable minerals or rock associated with a commercial ore
- Rock surrounding a mineral or precious gem in its natural state
- The base material of a vein that holds more valuable minerals in place
- the impurities (such as clay or sand) in an ore
- Waste rock surrounding and/or within an ore which must be separated in order to extract the desired mineral
- material of no value that accompanies the desired material in raw ores
- Sand, rock, and other impurities surrounding the mineral of interest in an ore
gangue
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[ 'ga[ng] ] (noun.) 1809. French, from German Gang vein of metal, from Old High German, act of going.Resimler
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