mineral-rich
adjective
NATURAL RESOURCESukusused todescribecountries,areas, etc. thatcontaina lot ofminerals:
Mexico's mineral-richmountainsare one of the country'sgreatnaturalresources.
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Imagine that you are traveling in a spaceship and have learned that there is amineral-richasteroid heading your way.
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In addition, it is smack in the middle of amineral-richasteroid path, and has already benefited from manymineral-richasteroids.
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While they are in the middle of amineral-richasteroid path, not a single asteroid has landed on their planet.
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Meanwhile, every other populated planet is loaded with natural resources, and has benefited from countlessmineral-richasteroids.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the colonial state sanctioned male out-migration to neighbouringmineral-richcountries.
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This alteration may form a soil with a clay andmineral-richcomposition often derived from considerable depth beneath the surface, possibly producing a soil matrix more desirable for ingestion.
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Appropriate pressure must be brought to bear to end the suffering that has escalated, especially around themineral-richareas.
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For many of our grassland farms the cooperative drying plants maintained by farmers are a valuable means of support, which make an important contribution to the supply ofmineral-richfodder.
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The rising ofmineral-richground water cemented these materials.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They also complained of his land-use decision to lease nearly one-eighth of the reservation'smineral-richlands to private companies.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That way, they can claimmineral-richland or enemy stashes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This might be similar to animals who thrive in the tremendous heat found in themineral-richexhaust of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Salt is produced from salt mines or by the evaporation of seawater ormineral-richspring water in shallow pools.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are commonly built in spa towns, wheremineral-richor hot water occurs naturally.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The empty spaces within an organism (spaces filled with liquid or gas during life) become filled withmineral-richgroundwater.
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