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Wad (mineral)

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Porous secondary manganese oxyhydroxide For other uses, see WAD (disambiguation).

Wad is an old mining term for any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral-rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. Typically closely associated with various iron oxides. Specific mineral varieties include pyrolusite, lithiophorite, nsutite, takanelite and vernadite. Wad can be considered to be the manganese equivalent to the iron mineraloid limonite.

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Wad on Mindat.org

Palache, Charles; Berman, Harry; Frondel, Clifford (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides (7th, revised and enlarged ed.), New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., pp. 566–567

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