Many of the most important magnetic minerals on Earth are oxides of iron and titanium.
The other important class of strongly magnetic minerals is the iron sulfides, particularly greigite and pyrrhotite.
Louis Néel developed a physical model that showed how real magnetic minerals could have the above properties.
Solid features such as walls tend to have a smaller amount of magnetic minerals within them than the surrounding soil, and therefore give lower readings.
When sedimentary rocks form, magnetic minerals within them tend to align themselves with the Earth's magnetic field.
There are many areas of the world where rocky terrain or magnetic minerals would frustrate the magnetometers.
His name has been assigned to a new magnetic mineral, greigite.
Avoid iron rich deposits when using a compass, for example, certain rocks which contain magnetic minerals, like Magnetite.
Magnetite, the most important of the magnetic minerals, is a ferrimagnet.
In the latest work, the researchers examined grains of magnetic minerals within the meteorite, each about one-250th of an inch long.