Manganese Nodules For Sale

These bean to potato sized nodules are currently the target of exploration and research mostly focused on the equatorial pacific ocean. Polymetallic nodules are rounded accretions of manganese and iron hydroxides that cover vast areas of the seafloor but are most abundant on abyssal plains at water depths of 4000 6500 metres. Over millions of years minerals are deposited around a core.

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The mineral composition of manganese bearing minerals is dependent on how the nodules are formed.

Manganese nodules for sale. It is an excellent mammilated specimen with very good characteristics and form. 2 10 lice through a manganese nodule. They form through the aggregation of layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a central particle such as a shell or small rock fragment and. Polymetallic manganese nodules for sale 5 lbs bag.

If production of these nodules proves. This manganese nodule came from the pacific ocean floor. Polymetallic nodules are roughly the size and shape of a potato and contain primarily manganese as well as nickel copper cobalt and iron. Sedimentary nodules which have a lower mn 2 content than diagenetic are dominated by fe vernadite mn feroxyhyte and asbolane buserite while diagenetic nodules are dominated by buserite i birnessite todorokite and asbolane buserite.

Metal rich clumps together with cobalt crusts manganese nodules are considered to be the most important deposits of metals and other mineral resources in the sea today. They can be found on the sea floor or buried in the sediment. The estimated age of these nodules is approximately 2 5 million years old. Nodules can technically occur anywhere in the ocean but seem to be in greatest abundance on the abyssal planes around 5000m deep.

Cobalt rich crusts form at shallower depths around 0 4 to 4 kilometres than manganese nodules on the flanks and summits of seamounts isa 2007. Much bigger than a golf ball see photos. The growth types termed diagenetic and hydrogenetic. Many of the nodules that we have for sale have folds and mammilated knobby surfaces that are irregular to smooth in shape and size.

2 diameter you receive 1 one large manganese nodule these were collected during the 1970s from the deep ocean e g blake plateau atlantic ocean. The nodules range in various size from about 1 4 to about 3 4. An additional potential source of manganese is the ferromanganese nodules and crusts that occur on the seafloor in many parts of the world s oceans. Really cool large manganese nodules.

Presented as found no modification no drilling no chipping no buffing no mischief. Accretion rates for cobalt rich crusts and nodules are some of the slowest natural processes on the planet and can be as slow as one to six millimetres of growth every one million years. Suitable for kiln. The bag in the picture of these nodules is 12 w x 19 l.

About 200 400 pieces per bag.