Minerals=Is a common substance that is nonliving, or not made by man. Minerals are the building blocks of rocks, the igneous rock,”GRANITE,” has several minerals in it, the metamorphic rock,”marble,” has only one mineral, and that mineral is quartz. The rocks that are formed by those minerals have different attributes from each other because of their minerals,and also minerals have the same element .
Our mineralogists have discovered over three-thousand minerals, and only thirty of them are common in rocks. have discerals that we have identified are common in rocks. Those minerals tha we have identified are rock forming minerals, and Some of those minerals are even in your backyard. Calcite can be either white or a colorless mineral, and also quartz comes in lots of colors.
All the elements make-up matter, the mineral graphite is made from carbon, table salt is also made from sodium and chlorine. Each and every mineral has their own chemical combination, and each one has it’s own crystal shape, and a crystal shape can also be a cube. Some shapes are like hexagons. A mineral’s shape is different from others because of the way it is formed.
Quartz can come in rose, white, or purple, hornblende is also a mineral used in granite, mica is a mineral that can be peeled easily. Feldspar forms have of earth’s crust, minerals that we often use come from ores. Ores contains lots of useful minerals, like Galena makes lead, Hematite also contains iron, and Bauxite contains aluminum.
Minerals are in the products that we use every day. Quartz is being used to make glass,and your toothpaste is made from fluorite, drywall is made from gypsum, and mica or talc makes paint, also copper makes cooking utensils, gems make jewelry or other accessories for women, diamonds are also used in tools. Also diamonds, rubies, and emeralds are removed from the earth’s crust.
Some of the common minerals that we know of is:Copper, Diamond, Gold, Graphite, Platinum, Silver, Sulfer, Bombsite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, and Stibnite
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