Word: feldspar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wild stallion, would loom even larger than the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
...business twelve years ago when demand for paving granite from their quarry fell off. Since chickens have no teeth, they masticate their food in their gizzards, with the help of pebbles they swallow while feeding. The Davidsons claim that their grit is ideal because it contains sparkling particles of feldspar and mica which attract a hungry...