No Comments

Riparian

Land adjacent to a large waterbody, connected in the same watershed

No Comments

Reserves

The extent of mineralization by size and value, calculated by sound volumetric procedures

No Comments

Representative sample

Samples large enough to contain a similar percentage of mineral constituents of the host rocks from which it was removed

No Comments

Replacement ore

Rocks transformed by the replacement of eroded or precipitated minerals, by the introduction of newly deposited minerals and while retaining a high percentage of its original form

No Comments

Relief

Another term for the shape of the earth surface at a specific point

No Comments

Regolith

The layer of rocks, gravel, sand, soil and other matter between surface and bedrock

No Comments

Refractory ore

Ore whose minerals resist separation by initial chemical processes and require further chemical decomposition