mineral

The real core of the issue is the disolved mineral content of the water and how healty or not that is.

By monazite, do you mean the phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals?

The result is often, water with residual mineral content.

Alaska could simply abolish the severance tax entirely, and just let private mineral-rights owners reap the full profits.

Chances are you don't even own the ground beneath your property either, unless you have mineral rights.

Another fun thing you can do is put the iron filings in a jar with mineral oil.

It's not some physical thing like a mineral which can only be mined in the United States.

If anyone's interested you can buy these drops as 'trace mineral drops' from the Great Salt Lake.

They have public Saline Graduation Towers which offer a place to sit and breath in the mineral rich water droplets.

China has shown no real interest in countries that don't have significant mineral or natural resources.

In Germany we still have a category called Heilwasser (literally healing water) for mineral water with a high content of one mineral and is treated by law as medicine.

Otherwise, your boiler fills with salt sludge, and your condenser gets clogged with mineral scale.

From wikipedia: "Monazite is a reddish-brown phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals and is an important source of thorium, lanthanum, and cerium.

Yes, the wood was different, the spruce being older-growth, harder and with higher mineral content on average than most of what was available elsewhere -- but there was probably more variation from slab to slab of the available spruce and maple than there would have been between the "average' log in Cremona and the "average" log in, say, Paris.