>From: Rob Ixer <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "The mining-history list." <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: gangue
>Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:21:36 +0100
>
>Re the dictionary definition. Strictly speaking gangue is all unwanted
>material associated with ore minerals in an ore and not the rock that the
>ore is found in, that is, of course, wall rock/country rock. I, and other
>ore mineralogists use gangue to mean those (nasty) non-opaque minerals
>with reflectances less than say 12% that clutter up much ore.
>Since we are doing pronunciations how is pahoehoe said I was taught pa-hoy-
>hoy but have heard on the TV pa-ho-ho-e.
>Rob
way back in the 60s i was taught the pronunciation of "pahoehoe" as pa-hoy-
hoy as well .... pete
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