siderite in English

noun
1
a brown mineral consisting of ferrous carbonate, occurring as the main component of some kinds of ironstone or as rhombohedral crystals in mineral veins.
Of particular interest are superb specimens of lustrous, pale lavender fluorite crystals, many of which are associated with sphalerite and siderite from what remained of the flats surrounding the Diana vein.
2
a meteorite consisting mainly of nickel and iron.
On a hillside, three miles above the mouth of the Tualitin, fell, apparently centuries ago, the Willamette siderite , the third largest iron meteorite in the world.
noun
    chalybite

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1. Associated minerals include sphalerite, cassiterite, siderite, and Briartite

2. Associated minerals include sphalerite, cassiterite, siderite and Briartite.

3. (0.2-1.4 m thick) with siderite and sulfides in Beresite aureole

4. Their mineral content is consisting of goethite, lepidocrocite, hematite, magnetite with some transformation to maghemite, siderite and the usual accompanying “gangue” minerals.

5. During dehydration, fractures at the top and the bottom of the Algal layer and at the transition zone of the siderite layer are formed

6. iron(II) carbonate, or ferrous carbonate, is a chemical compound with formula FeCO 3, that occurs naturally as the mineral siderite.

7. Alluvial floodplain mudstones of the late Maastrichtian Whitemud Formation of southern Saskatchewan contain abundant vertebrate faecal remains preserved as siderite and Fe-hydroxides.

8. 25 The results indicate that the jade mainly consists of illite and a small quantity of feldspar, quartz, hematite, siderite and rutile, which is argillaceous sedimentary rock.