Sentence examples for massive mineral from inspiring English sources

Unless a massive mineral skeleton is present, the dry matter of most organisms is about one-half carbon by weight.

The scale of the misery caused by that conflict and the importance of Congo's massive mineral wealth explains the anxiety among ordinary Congolese, diplomats, aid workers and others, following the advance this week of a Tutsi rebel army towards the town of Goma in eastern Congo.

Dramatic environmental change occurred beginning in the 1870s with the final conquest of the Apaches, the discovery of massive mineral deposits (especially silver and copper), the arrival of the railroad, and huge influxes of capital from the northeastern USA and Great Britain, much of it underwriting livestock imported from surrounding regions (Dobyns 1981, Bahre 1991).

Did a 2007 report of massive mineral deposits in Afghanistan affect President Obama's 2009 decision to widen the scope of the Afghan war?

The serious question is did the knowledge of these massive mineral deposits affect President Obama's decision to increase troop levels and widen the scale of operations in Afghanistan?

The US did try to train the Afghan government to do the complex work necessary to oversee a massive mineral extraction sector.

More than a third of west Africa's Birimian Greenstone Belt a massive, mineral-rich geological formation stretching from Ghana to Senegal lies within its borders.

The country sits on massive untapped mineral reserves, but Willhauck noted that mining would not be a cure-all.

The restricted peritidal carbonate successions lack massive evaporitic minerals (such as gypsum/anhydrite), suggesting that the Ma 5 5 submember limestones developed in a restricted evaporitic environment with slightly increased salinity, where the marine water only rarely achieved gypsum saturation and did not reach gypsum precipitation.

Malians are beginning to believe in a conspiracy theory – never dismissed by Keïta – that suggests greedy "foreign powers" have secret information about massive oil and mineral wealth in the north of Mali and are siding with secessionist rebels.

Every year, massive amounts of mineral dust are uplifted into the atmosphere (1950 to 2400 Tg year−1; Ginoux et al. 2004).