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green·stone

(grēn′stōn′)

Any of various altered basic igneous rocks colored green by chlorite, hornblende, or epidote.

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greenstone

(ˈɡriːnˌstəʊn)

1. (Geological Science) any basic igneous rock that is dark green because of the presence of chlorite, actinolite, or epidote

2. (Minerals) a variety of jade used in New Zealand for ornaments and tools

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green•stone

(ˈgrinˌstoʊn)

n.

any of various altered basaltic rocks having a dark green color.

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The surrounding islands all consist of conical masses of greenstone, associated sometimes with less regular hills of baked and altered clay-slate.

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The claims cover an area of approximately 304 hectares and are contained within the Birch-Uchi-Confederation Lakes greenstone belt which hosts the world-renowned Red Lake gold deposits as well as Great Bear Resources' Dixie project.

Falcon Commences Exploration on Wabunk Bay Property, Red Lake Ontario

Importantly, the Retail Entitlement Offer is conditionally underwritten by Macquarie Capital (Australia) Limited1 and subunderwritten by various sub-underwriters (including Greenstone Management (Delaware) II LLC in its capacity as general partner of Greenstone Resources II (Australia) Holdings L.P (Greenstone)).

Kalium Lakes Limited - Successful Placement and Institutional Entitlement Offer

The company is aiming to unlock the value of the 21-kilometre continuous greenstone belt with drilling at the south end of the East Menzies-Goodenough Project recently commencing.

Resources & Energy's drilling at Goodenough aims to upgrade gold resource

1 / 2 Alex Gemici, chairman of Greenstone Equity Partners.

Greenstone gets license to promote financial products

Greenstone Pictures, a New Zealand production house which set up an office in Dubai Studio City last year, has revealed to BroadcastPro ME that it now has a strong slate of stories from the region in development.

Greenstone Pictures to bring factual entertainment to MENA audiences

The property is adjacent to Novo Resources Corp.'s tenement block that contains the basal Mount Roe contact over the underlying basement rocks of the Pilbara Well Greenstone belt.

Pacton Closes Acquisition of Australian Golden Palms Property

Leif Enger's third novel, Virgil Wander, centers on the eponymous protagonist who lives in the quaint, rustic town of Greenstone, Minnesota.

To share each other's burdens

Changi, Singapore, June 21, 2018 --(PR.com)-- KB Associates is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of the 2018 Historical Diving Society Leonard Greenstone Award.

KBA is Awarded the 2018 Historical Diving Society Leonard Greenstone Award

The study titled - "China is winning its war against pollution", conducted by Michael Greenstone, a professor in economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago said that air pollution has decreased in China's most populous cities, according to a data collected from more than 200 air pollution monitors in the country, Xinhua reported.

China successfully cuts down air pollution in last 4 years: US study

Riverside Retail Park, in Aberdare, has been sold to Greenstone Imperial by MVJ Capital.