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detrital mineral
Any mineral grain resulting from mechanical disintegration of parent rock; esp. a heavy mineral found in a sediment or weathered and transported from a vein or lode and found in a placer or alluvial deposit.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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