Using Mineral Resources. Minerals are the source of gemstones, metals, and a variety of materials...

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Using Mineral Resources

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Using Mineral Resources

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Minerals are the source of gemstones, metals, and a variety of materials used to make many products

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Food

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Makeup

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Vitamins

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Gemstones

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• Gemstones – hard, colorful, usually rare, minerals that have a brilliant or glassy luster.– Once a gemstone is cut and polished = GEM– Jewelry – Decoration

…but also– Mechanical parts for grinding/polishing

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• Metals• Some minerals are the sources for aluminum,

iron, copper, or silver– Tools– Machinery– Cars– Light bulb filaments– Aluminum foil– Building steel

…the list is endless

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• Metals are typically not as hard as gemstones

• Metals can be…– Stretched into wire– Flattened into sheets– Hammered– Molded

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Other important mineral uses…

• Medicine

• Food

• Fertilizer

• Building materials

• Optical instruments

• What optical instrument do scientists use all the time…?

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• Quartz used in making glass (for electronic equipment, glassware or watches)

• Gypsum used to make wallboard, cement, stucco

• Talc talcum powder

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• Ore – a rock that contains a metal or other useful mineral that can be mined and sold at a profit.

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• Prospecting – A prospector searches (prospects) for an ore deposit.– Geologists are ore prospectors

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• Three Mine Types:

• Strip

• Open pit

• Shaft

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Strip Mines

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Open Pit Mines

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Shaft Mining

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