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  2. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  3. Calcite - Wikipedia

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    Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3).It is a very common mineral, particularly as a component of limestone.Calcite defines hardness 3 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, based on scratch hardness comparison.

  4. Drilling and blasting - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly used explosives in mining today are ANFO based blends due to lower cost than dynamite. Before the advent of tunnel boring machines (TBMs), drilling and blasting was the only economical way of excavating long tunnels through hard rock, where digging is not possible.

  5. Limestone - Wikipedia

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    Limestone (calcium carbonate CaCO 3) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of CaCO 3. Limestone forms when these minerals precipitate out of water containing dissolved calcium. This can take place ...

  6. Calcium carbonate - Wikipedia

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    Crystal structure of calcite. Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula Ca CO 3.It is a common substance found in rocks as the minerals calcite and aragonite, most notably in chalk and limestone, eggshells, gastropod shells, shellfish skeletons and pearls.

  7. Vein (geology) - Wikipedia

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    The difference between 19th-century and 21st-century mining techniques and the type of ore sought is based on the grade of material being mined and the methods of mining which are used. Historically, hand-mining of gold ores permitted the miners to pick out the lode quartz or reef quartz, allowing the highest-grade portions of the lodes to be ...

  8. Lime (material) - Wikipedia

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    In the lime industry, limestone is a general term for rocks that contain 80% or more of calcium or magnesium carbonate, including marble, chalk, oolite, and marl.Further classification is done by composition as high calcium, argillaceous (clayey), silicious, conglomerate, magnesian, dolomite, and other limestones. [5]

  9. SubTropolis - Wikipedia

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    Dug into the Bethany Falls limestone mine, SubTropolis is up to 160 feet (49 m) beneath the surface. It has a grid of 16-foot-high (4.9 m), 40-foot-wide (12 m) tunnels separated by 25-foot-square (7.6 m) limestone pillars created by the room and pillar method of hard rock mining . [ 1 ]