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Category: Minerals & Metalloids

25 Interesting Facts About Fluorspar

Posted on May 24, 2019May 30, 2025 by Brian Colwell

Fluorspar is the commercial name for fluorite, which is the only fluorine mineral mined at scale. The largest global production of fluorspar is found in China, followed next by Mexico. The number…

20 Interesting Facts About Barite

Posted on May 20, 2019May 30, 2025 by Brian Colwell

The largest identified global resources of barite are found in the Qinling and Jiangnan regions of southern China and the Cuddapah district of India. In 2018, China was the largest producer of…

20 Interesting Facts About Antimony

Posted on May 19, 2019June 4, 2025 by Brian Colwell

Antimony is an important mineral commodity used widely in modern industrialized societies and considered by many nations to be a Critical Resource Mineral because of its applications in aerospace and defense. There…

20 Interesting Facts About Tellurium

Posted on May 18, 2019June 4, 2025 by Brian Colwell

Tellurium is critical to efficient, thin-film photovoltaic cells that produce electricity from sunlight. Several materials can replace tellurium in most of its uses, but with losses in efficiency and product characteristics. With…

20 Interesting Facts About Arsenic

Posted on May 15, 2019June 4, 2025 by Brian Colwell

A crystalline metalloid found in minerals such as arsenopyrite, realgar and orpiment, the infamous arsenic has an amazing history – from the time of the Roman Empire to the Victorian era, arsenic…

20 Interesting Facts About Germanium

Posted on May 9, 2019June 4, 2025 by Brian Colwell

Germanium, the first element in the periodic table named after a country, has the chemical symbol Ge, the atomic number 32, and is a lustrous metalloid in the carbon group. Germanium is…

15 Interesting Facts About Diamonds

Posted on February 23, 2019May 30, 2025 by Brian Colwell

The story of diamonds is either a sordid tale of monopolistic politics and power, or an iconic marketing origin story of genius branding and demographic analysis, depending on whom is telling the…

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