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Heavy minerals in beach sands of Gopalpur and Paradeep along Orissa coastline, east cost of India

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Title Heavy minerals in beach sands of Gopalpur and Paradeep along Orissa coastline, east cost of India
 
Creator Behera, P.
 
Subject Beach sands
Gopalpur beach
heavy minerals
Orissa
Paradeep beach
 
Description 172-174
Selective sand samples were collected from Gopalpur and Paradeep beaches and studied for their heavy mineral assemblage. Beachsands of both the areas contain heavy minerals like sillimanite, ilmenite, garnet, pyroxene, rutile, sphene, biotite, hornblende, zircon and monazite. At Gopalpur, the percentage of concentration of sillimanite is the highest followed by limonite, garnet, pyroxene, rutile, sphene, biotite, hornblende, zircon and monazite. At Paradeep, almost similar trend was observed with some exceptions, i.e., concentration of pyroxene and biotite is more here. The mineral sphene was absent at Paradeep, whereas tourmaline was negligible at Gopalpur. Higher grade percentage of heavies at Gopalpur is linked with many favourable factors and is being mined by IREL whereas low grade percentage at Paradeep discourages mining.
 
Date 2009-05-22T08:47:57Z
2009-05-22T08:47:57Z
2003-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0379-5136
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4264
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source IJMS Vol.32(2) [June 2003]