Mercury is the main element used to process gold in La Rinconada.
Other minerals include deposits of manganese, nickel, vanadium (a metallic element used to form alloys), bauxite, and chrome.
Significant amounts of platinum, silver and palladium, an element used in armaments that fetches an even higher price than gold, were also recovered and sold.
Diplomats have said that the atomic agency also found at the site traces of graphite, a structural element used in North Korean reactors.
The foregoing section on aesthetic components stressed the fact that, in design, the whole or total effect is more important than the specific device or element used.
In several cases, DNA or fingerprint evidence from the crime scene appeared to provide the crucial element used by detectives in solving cases.
Wall, structural element used to divide or enclose, and, in building construction, to form the periphery of a room or a building.
There are two forms of dispersing element used to spread out the constituent colours of a beam of light into a "spectrum," namely a prism and a grating.
The company said the cutbacks were a response to the oversupply of molybdenum -- a metallic element used to strengthen and harden steel and iron -- and the continued low prices on the world market.
The experiments took place at a cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator, in Dubna, where the scientists fired a rare isotope of calcium at americium, an element used in applications as varied as nuclear weapons research and household smoke detectors.
What you might call the comic-con tendency – the smart-arse, movie literate, nerd-attracting element – used to equate, in British terms, to the movies of Wright: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World.
