Limonite
Limonite is an ore of iron, and it causes coloration in soil. The widespread and common hydrated iron oxide mineral limonite is a minor ore of iron and a source of ocher and umber pigments.
Limonite
Limonite - Mining Fundamentals. Limonite is an iron ore, containing a hydrated iron (III) oxide-hydroxide mixture in different compositions. It is one of the two major iron ores, the other being …
Limonite: an iron oxide used as pigment and iron ore
Before modern mineral analysis, the name "limonite" was given to many of the yellowish to yellowish brown iron oxides produced during the weathering of iron-bearing rocks or deposited as bog, lake, and shallow marine sediments.
Limonite: Mineral information, data and localities.
Limonite Bayerland mine, Pfaffenreuth, Leonberg, Tirschenreuth District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. Hide all sections | Show all sections. About Limonite Hide. Lustre: Earthy. …
Limonite: Mineral information, data and localities.
Named in 1813 by Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann from the greek λειμωυ for meadow alluding to its common occurrences in bogs. Currently used as a field-term unidentified …
Limonite: Mineral information, data and localities.
Significant localities for Limonite Hide. Showing 3 significant localities out of 14,565 recorded on mindat. This map shows a selection of localities that have latitude and longitude …
Limonite | Properties, Occurrence and Uses » …
Limonite is a mineral that is composed mainly of hydrated iron oxides, typically goethite and/or lepidocrocite, along with other minerals such as magnetite, hematite, and quartz. It is a yellowish-brown to dark brown mineral …
Limonite
Limonite is extremely common and found worldwide. Excellent iridescent botryoidal masses have recently been found in China at Nandan, Guangxi Province, and at Qinglong, Guizhou …
Limonite | Iron Ore, Hydrated Iron & Clay | Britannica
Limonite, one of the major iron minerals, hydrated ferric oxide (FeO (OH)·nH2O). It was originally considered one of a series of such oxides; later it was thought to be the amorphous equivalent of goethite and …
Limonite – WGNHS – UW–Madison
FLORENCE COUNTY: Limonite occurs as a component of the oxidized ore formed on iron formation in a number of small iron mines in T.40N. R.18E., where it occurs with magnetite, grunerite, siderite and stilpnomelane.