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What does ANRS stand for?

Anorthosite (lithological term)


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Just like the rocks on Earth, Moon's have lots of basalt and olivine, pyroxene, and mafic breccias, along with plagioclase feldspar, also known as anorthosite.
Initially, the scope of work includes testing and development based on Nordic Minings anorthosite deposit in Gudvangen in the Sogn and Fjordane county.
He takes in the safety ropes as we follow, our climbing shoes sticking to footholds on the anorthosite, a rough igneous rock.
Vast the development certainly was; the extraction of millions of tonnes of anorthosite, a sort of feldspar that makes excellent road-metal, would have lasted some 60 years, removed much of a small mountain, gouged out an entirely new sea loch, left cliffs about 1,000 feet high and, in all, been so sensational a reworking of the Harris coast that the superquarry would have been visible from space.
An anorthosite processing plant could be built in Foleyet within a year pending the results of a test sample being taken this month.
07 g/t Pd - Ore hosted in a norite body within a large unexplored anorthosite complex.
The anorthosite host rocks of the ilmenite-hematite ore are occupying an oval area approximately 28 kilometres long underlying most of the Property area, and are intruding into the surrounding granite-diorite series rocks of Precambrian age.
Pacific Industrial Minerals owner John Heter intends to extract 150,000 tons per year of anorthosite, an asphalt ingredient, for 20 years.

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