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What does gangue mean?

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  1. (mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.
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The fluorite is typically a gangue mineral and is only locally recovered as an ore.
Its down-dip sulfide ores were sideritic and pyritic, with golden barite forming one of the gangue minerals.
As a result, quartz is an uncommon gangue mineral within most of the district.
The main gangue minerals that make up the vein are massive white calcite, quartz, and prehnite.
The main ore minerals are galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite that are associated with quartz and barite gangue.
Exceptionally well-crystallized zinc-bearing rhodonite was a locally abundant gangue mineral at Franklin and, to a lesser extent, Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey.

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