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What does limonite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) any of several natural hydrous iron oxides; often a mixture of goethite and hemite with clays and manganese oxide
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Some of the turquoise from their mine contains limonite intergrown with thin layers of native gold.
The phenakite is also associated with albite, limonite, smoky quartz, and topaz and is often overlooked because it resembles quartz.
Although some plates are dull and stained by limonite, the clean, bright specimens are very aesthetic.
This crystal was glassy and was found associated with smoky quartz, microcline-perthite, biotite, zircon, bastnasite, and limonite after siderite.
The common presence of limonite suggests that there was a significant quantity of pyrite in the area prior to oxidation.
In the flats surrounding the veins commercial iron deposits were found as limonite that was derived from the oxidation of iron carbonates.

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