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  • noun mineralogy A granular, brittle oxide mineral of the perovskite class.

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Examples

  • Its loparite concentrate holds light rare earths such as lanthanum and cerium.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • One client now dictates prices for its hard-to-extract product, loparite, a rare greyish-black ore, used in limited quantities to make metal alloys.

    Guardian Online 2010

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