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biotitic

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bi·o·tite  (b-tt)
n.
A dark-brown or dark-green to black mica, K(Mg,Fe)3(Al,Fe)Si3O10(OH)2, found in igneous and metamorphic rocks.

[After Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), French physicist.]

bio·titic (-ttk) adj.
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Adj.1.biotitic - relating to or involving biotite


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All of the remaining samples were comprised of variations of the bulk host lithology of garnetiferrous, biotitic gneiss.
Drill targets have been generated through geological mapping and generally consist of areas where artisanal workings have exposed bedrock gold mineralization in sheared, shallow-dipping sections of garnetiferrous, quartzo-feldspathic and biotitic gneisses.
To date geological mapping has documented numerous areas of artisanal bedrock mining operations hosted within shallow dipping garnetiferrous, quartzo-feldspathic and biotitic gneisses, scattered over a surface area of 14 square kilometres in the east-central portion of the Morogoro property.
 
 
 
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