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Richland Resources

Richland Resources is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Richland Resources rather than just read about it. In short: Richland Resources Ltd is a gemstone mining, development and exploration company who are listed on the London Stock Exchanges AIM market. (AIM:RLD) Richlands developed and operated TanzaniteOne Mining Ltd – the world's largest tanzanite gemstone mining company, based in Merelani, Tanzania from August 2004 until March 2015.

Key takeaways

Richland Resources belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Richland Resources to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Richland Resources from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Richland Resources Ltd is a gemstone mining, development and exploration company who are listed on the London Stock Exchanges AIM market. (AIM:RLD) Richlands developed and operated TanzaniteOne Mining Ltd – the world's largest tanzanite gemstone mining company, based in Merelani, Tanzania from August 2004 until March 2015. The Company also developed a beneficiation division for the sale and export of cut gemstones while establishing a multi-level sales system for retailing ethically sourced gemstones to corporate and individual buyers. Richlands revenue peaked in 2004 at US$22.4 million. Richland Resources sold TanzaniteOne Mining to Dyumna Mining Industries Ltd. in February 2015. Richlands is also responsible for creating the Tanzanite Foundation in 2003 – a non profit organisation which is devoted to the education and promotion of the relatively new gemstone tanzanite. The Tanzanite Foundation also fundraised and facilitated for multiple community projects around the tanzanite mining area, including the building of new schools, scholarship programs and the building and up keep of a safe public road to the mining area. In 2015 Richlands entered into a new phase of operations at the Capricorn Sapphire mine site, located in central Queensland, Australia. With first production dated May 15, 2015 the company's strategy is to focus on the development of the Capricorn Sapphire mine as a new hub for ethically mined sapphire. The majority of Richlands sapphire are sold in bulk as rough, unpolished stones through a De Beers-style sightholder system. Richlands operate an online retail store, RichlandGemstones.com, which sells Australian sapphires and tanzanite gemstones and jewellery. Richlands tanzanite is sourced directly from their former mine, TanzaniteOne. The sapphires – which are typically "fancy sapphires" the name given to green, yellow and multi coloured sapphires – are mined by the company at Capricorn Sapphire Mine. The online store was previously named tanzaniteoneonline.com and was launched by Richlands in 2013.

References

External links Official website Online Gemstone Store

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Richland Resources

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Richland Resources claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Richland Resources before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Richland Resources ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Richland Resources

In research: Richland Resources appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Richland Resources in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Richland Resources is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Gemstone mines, Mines in Tanzania, Mining companies of the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Richland Resources outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Richland Resources in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Richland Resources means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Richland Resources out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Richland Resources in simple terms?

Why does Richland Resources matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Richland Resources?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Richland Resources.