"Chromite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which all chromium compounds are made is chromite, or chrome iron ore (FeCr{2}O{4}). This is found most abundantly in New Caledonia and Turkey. The element also occurs in small quantities in many other minerals, especially in crocoisite (PbCrO{4}), in which mineral ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson
... (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... considerable, although, with the exception of coal, it remains largely unexploited. The minerals which are commercially valuable include gold (found in small quantities), silver, graphite, galena, pyrite, marcasite, chalcosine, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, bornite, cuprite, hematite, limonite, ochre, chromite, magnetite, azurite, manganese, malachite, gypsum, &c. The combustibles are anthracitiferous coal, coal, "brown coal" and lignite. The lignite mines opened by the government at Pernik in 1891 yielded in 1904 142,000 tons. Coal beds have been discovered at Trevna ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various |
