| 21. | Besides stibnite, which was used for eye liner red, antimony is one of the oldest minerals used in cosmetics.
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| 22. | Sarabauite can be found there in mineral veins through altered limestone containing quartz, wollastonite, calcite, stibnite and senarmonite.
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| 23. | Prized high-quality stibnite crystals produced at the mine can be found in museums and private collections around the world.
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| 24. | Alchemists had shown that when stibnite, an antimony sulfide ore, was heated with scrap iron, metallic antimony was produced.
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| 25. | Starkey used stibnite as a precursor to philosophical mercury, which was itself a hypothetical precursor to the Philosopher's stone.
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| 26. | The largest documented single crystals of stibnite measured ~ 60?? cm and originated from different locations including Japan, France and Germany.
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| 27. | The "'Stibnite Mining District "'is one of the most historic mining districts in all of Idaho.
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| 28. | During this wartime period Stibnite produced 40 percent of the nation's domestic supply of tungsten and 90 percent of its antimony
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| 29. | The typefounder would typically introduce powdered stibnite and horseshoe nails into his crucible to melt lead, tin and antimony into type metal.
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| 30. | The mixture of stibnite and nails was heated red hot in an open-air furnace, until all is molten and finished.
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