Red Antimony’s Story
January 14th, 2011 - Posted by admin
Mick Shmazian is a highly skilled mineral prospector who has worked all over the world. In his two decades of experience in mineral prospecting, he has worked in virtually every station within the industry, which means he has had the opportunity to learn a great deal about the industry. One of the dominant lessons he has learned is that the industry does not properly use new technologies. Shmazian believes that if technology were embraced in the mineral prospecting industry, then profits and productivity in the industry would soar. Shmazian first began prospecting in a region of North Western Australia called Pilbara. Mick Shmazian has traveled all over the world since then, working in Asia, Africa, and North America.
Kermesite is an oxysulfide mineral that is made from Antimony, Oxygen, and Silicon. It generally occurs in various shades of red, which gives it the nickname “red antimony”. The Mohs Scale of Hardness ranks Kermesie as a 1 or 2.
Use of Kermesite dates all the way back to Ancient Egypt (2345-2181 BCE). It was used for lip cosmetics, even back then. It was used in many types of cosmetics back then and was highly prized for that fact. Kermesite can be found all over the globe, but the most significant deposits are in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Mexico, the United States, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, and Australia.
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November 23rd, 2010 - Posted by admin
The Chinese economy has been in a constant state of growth over the previous decade or so, driven in large part by a trend towards industrialization. This trend would not be possible without steel production and the iron ore of Australia. With this in mind, investing in Apollo Minerals Limited, a publicly traded company, is a great way to get leverage into the Chinese economy.
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November 8th, 2010 - Posted by admin
Mick Shmazian is one of the most widely respected mineral prospectors working in the industry today. He has worked all over the world, including in Australia, Africa, Asia, and North America. He was not always such a globe-trotter, he got his start in the industry of mineral prospecting by working in the Pilbara region of North Western Australia. Shmazian beliefs that technology can help to make mineral prospecting easier and more fruitful. For that very purpose, he maintains an international database of mineral deposits.
Alabandite is a manganese sulfide mineral that is fairly rare. It occurs in a range of darker colors, including black, steelgray, and dark brown. It ranks between a 3.5 and a 4 on the Mohs scale of hardness, which means it is somewhere between soft and average.
Although Alabandite has occasionally been found in meteorites, it was first found in Turkey in 1784 by Franz-Joseph Muller von Reichenstein. Alabandite may be fairly rare, but it can be found in virtually all geographic areas of the world, including Antartica, Armenia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Ghana, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, and Yemen.
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September 29th, 2010 - Posted by admin
Mick Shmazian is one of the most respected mineral prospectors working today. He has considerable experience in the industry, having worked in mineral prospecting for over two decades. Shmazian is one of the individuals in his profession who believes that technology can help the industry. He personally maintains an extensive database for mineral deposits all over the world.
Goethite is a little known mineral compared to the likes of silver or even jade–but it is nevertheless fairly important. It is named after the German genius and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It’s an iron-bearing oxide that has been used since time immemorial as a pigment.
Goethite can occur in colors ranging from yellow and red to a dark brown. It is often formed through the weathering of iron-rich materials. It is found all over the world at the bottom of lakes and creeks and on cave floors.
Goethite is found in significant deposits in Cuba, Australia, England, and the United States. In the U.S., it is found in Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, Michigan, Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia.
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September 16th, 2010 - Posted by admin
Mick Shmazian is a well respected member of the mineral prospecting industry. He is considered a specialist in identifying and reviewing mineral deposits. He has twenty years of experience at his back, which certainly helps to inform him. Shmazian got his start in the industry working in Australia, in the area around Pilbara, Western Australia, specifically. He has traveled all over the world for his work, though, including to three other continents—Africa, Asia, and North America. Shmazian also maintains an expansive database which organizes and lists mineral deposits from all over the United States.
Cadmium is an element that is represented on the periodic table by the atomic number 48 and the symbol Cd. Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is similar, in many ways, to Zinc. Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann discovered the mineral simultaneously, in Germany. For about one-hundred years, Germany remained the only important exporter of Cadmium.
Cadmium came to be used in the United States from the 1930s until the 1960s, Cadmium was used dominantly to coat steel and iron to prevent corrosion. Now, roughly 80% of Cadmium consumption in the United States is due to the use of cadmium-nickel batteries.
China accounts for roughly one-sixth of internationally Cadmium production. Other major producers include South Korea and Japan.
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September 8th, 2010 - Posted by admin
Mick Shmazian is an accomplished mineral prospector who has been working in the industry for over twenty years. During that time he has been able to become a specialist in reviewing, researching, identifying, and developing mineral deposits. He has worked all over the world, including in Asia, Africa, North America, and all over Australia. His global experience has made him one of the most reputable mineral prospectors in the industry.
Lithium is not what most people think of when they are trying to think of a metal. However, Lithium is both a metal and a mineral. Generally, one thinks of iron-like metallurgic rocks when you say “metal”, not about a soft, silver-white, element. Li is the symbol for Lithium, its atomic number is 3. Lithium is the least dense solid element, and the most light metal.
Lithium is an element that is most commonly associated with batteries. This is thanks to lithium-ion batteries which are now produced by virtually every major battery company. If you mention lithium to someone–they are likely to think of the Energizer Bunny, or some other battery company. Few people, though, realize that lithium is actually used for many purposes. Lithium is even used during nuclear fusion. Probably the most historically popular use of lithium is its pharmacological applications. In the 19th century, Lithium salts were used to treat gout, and Lithium salts are still used on individuals with manic depression or bi-polar disorder in an effort to stabilize their moods.
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August 27th, 2010 - Posted by admin
One of the most widely respected mineral prospectors and researchers is Mick Shmazian. He began his work in Pilbara, in North Western Australia, but his efforts have expanded in recent years. His twenty years in the industry have taken him all over Australia and to three other continents–North America, Asia, and Africa. The increasing scarcity of new mineral deposits to be found has necessitated the use of technology in the industry–a problem which Mick Shmazian has helped to find a solution to. He runs a database which maps mineral deposits all over the world.
Gold is perhaps the world’s most well known mineral and element. It is represented on the elemental table by the symbol Au and its atomic number is 79. It is also one of the more expensive elements on the planet, though not the most expensive by any means.
As of this writing, gold is worth over $1237 per ounce, a pretty staggering figure. Gold owes is value to its luster as well as to its relative scarcity. It is also highly ductile and malleable, so it is often made into jewelry or other ornamental decorations.
At one point in history, most countries or cultures used gold as their currency. This is a common theme in many cultures, they found gold and used it as a trading medium. Gold today is not used as a currency. Instead, it is used for commercial purposes and as an investing store of value.
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