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When it comes to mineral deposits very few people think of sand and gravel despite such commodities being consumed in far greater quantities than metals. Raw materials such as natural stone, lime, clay, kaolin, gravel, and sand are referred to as industrial minerals and rocks. In Germany 600 million tonnes of these are extracted each year from quarries, dredging lakes, sand pits, and gravel pits.
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Neukirchen, F., Ries, G. (2020). Industrial Minerals and Rocks. In: The World of Mineral Deposits. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34346-0_7
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