Sentence examples for set of minerals from inspiring English sources

Now many commodities are again hovering around record prices and as their results-reporting season begins, mining firm are set to look indecently profitable.BHP Billiton, which relies for its profits on the most diverse set of minerals (including oil), reported a half-year profit of $10.5 billion on February 16th.

The similarity is that both fractions are characterized by the same set of minerals.

X-ray diffractometry and SEM analysis revealed a similar set of minerals in both fractions, but in different proportions.

A2M ('Analysis to Mineralogy') is a computer program to determine, for given total chemical analyses, all possible mineral modes from an arbitrary but pre-specified set of minerals.

In the case of soils, the buffer action composes of the buffer action of a set of mineral and organic components and presented by solid, liquid, and gaseous compounds.

Although both models describe solid-aqueous phase reactions kinetically, the two models identify two different sets of mineral assemblages affecting the porosity and permeability of the media.

Colgan, who studies the geologic setting of mineral deposits in the western United States, has considered academic jobs but would like to stay in a more permanent job at USGS.

The fluids resulting from basalt dehydration may also widely circulate within the mélange and can form pervasive sets of mineral veins within the seismogenic zone (Hashimoto et al. 2012).

During the model runs, a set of secondary minerals (selected based on independent information from alteration minerals' studies) was allowed to precipitate from model solutions, when saturation was achieved.

It is an experience-based algorithm that represents compositions in terms of a simplified set of normative minerals.

In particular, a set of aqueous minerals in present in the stratigraphy, being visible through erosional windows in the first several tens of meters of the sedimentary sequence.