mineralize

To convert to a mineral substance; petrify.

To transform a metal into a mineral by oxidation.

To impregnate with minerals.

To develop or hasten mineral formation.

To collect or study minerals.

To change from the metallic character to that of an ore.

To go on a minoralogical excursion; make an excursion with the view of collecting minerals. Also spelled mineralise.

To impregnate with mineral substances, as metallic salts: thus, the water of a particular spring may be spoken of as more or less strongly mineralized.

In mining, to introduce, in solution or otherwise, a new mineral or ore into (surroundings where it did not previously exist, as, for example, into a fissure or into shattered or porous rock). The rock is then said to be mineralized.

To transform into a mineral.