Sentence examples for mineral sand from inspiring English sources

This creates stress between the grains of the mineral sand that causes them to break apart.

It was the Fraser government that prohibited exploration and drilling on the Great Barrier Reef, as well as overcoming the opposition of the Bjelke-Petersen government to effectively stop mineral sand mining on Fraser Island off the Queensland coast.

The issue was resolved when a crew from the Park Service's self-insured preservation unit smoothed the area on Thursday night using a synthetic mineral sand called Jet-Mag that had been successfully tested.

However, for other types of particulate matter more commonly ingested (e.g., mineral sand) flight operations are permitted within a certain threshold of particle concentration.

Accordingly, the effect of ash on the operational reliability of aircraft turbines is expected to be very different from that of any mineral sand dominated by quartz.

Seeds from 15 plants per population were germinated in petri dishes on moist filter paper and seedlings were transplanted individually into 38 ml seedling tray cells filled with sterilized mineral sand (sterilized by gamma radiation ≥ 25 kGray).

Mineral sands, such as zircon, sit under a tarpaulin.

They are especially effective at concentrating heavy mineral sands and gold ores.

Sand mining was carried out on the island until 1977, when the Commonwealth government banned exports of the mineral sands.

The most economically important mineral reserves are located in Western Australia (iron ore, nickel, bauxite, diamonds, gold, mineral sands, and offshore natural gas), Queensland (bauxite, bituminous [black] coal, lead, mineral sands, zinc, and silver), New South Wales (bituminous coal, lead, zinc, silver, and mineral sands), and Victoria (lignite and offshore oil and natural gas).

Electrostatic separation is used in all plants that process heavy mineral sands bearing zircon, rutile, and monazite.