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Minerals composed of only one element.

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Native elements

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Is the largest and most abundant group containing silicon and oxygen.

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Silicate Class

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formed from the combination of a metal with oxygen.

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Oxide

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made of compounds of sulfur usually with a metal.

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Sulfide

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made of compounds of sulfur combined with metals and oxygen.

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Sulfates

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form from halogen elements like chloring, bromine, fluorine and iodine combined with metallic elements.

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Halides

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Group of minerals made of carbon, oxygen and a metallic element.

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Carbonates

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They are often formed when other minerals are broken down by weathering. They are often brightly colored.

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Phosphates

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It is the term used for those substances that do not fit neatly into one of the eight classes.

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Mineraloid

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Toothpaste
Aluminum Products
Drinking water

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Fluorite

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Wiring
Electronics
Coins

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Copper

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Cosmetics
Paint
Baby powder

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Talc

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Batteries
Medical Shields
Fishing Tackle

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Galena

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______ rarely found in nature in its uncombined form. ______ is 25.7% of the earth’s crust being silicon, it binds strongly with oxygen and is nearly always found as ___________
- Nail Polish
- All types of glass
- Ceramics

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Silica
Silicon
silicon oxide(quartz)

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Porcelain
Cement
Medicines

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Gypsum

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Ships
Canned goods
Cooking utensils

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Hematite

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17
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Pencil lead
Bricks
Lubricants

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Graphite

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18
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Table salt
Livestock supplements
Bleach

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Halite

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Another major ore of iron(magnetic)

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Magnetite

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The process of mineral extraction from a rock seam or ore

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Mining

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a natural rock or sediment one or more valuable mineral

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Ore

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is used to extract ore minerals near the surface of the earth.

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Surface Mining

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means a big hole or pit in the ground. It is used to mine gravel and sand and even rock.

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Open-pit mining

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removal of soil and rock above a layer or seam, followed by the removal of the exposed mineral.

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Strip Mining

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This is the process of mining materials from the bottom of a body of water, including rivers, lakes and oceans.
Dredging
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is used to extract the rocks, minerals and other precious stones that can be found beneath the earth's surface.
Underground Mining
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the process of extracting minerals from the ore, refining them, and preparing these minerals for use.
Mineral Processing
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It is the removal of a portion which represents a whole needed for the analysis of this material
Sampling
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is important to evaluate the valuable component in an ore. This includes chemical, mineral and particle size analysis
Analysis
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- is the process where the valuable components of the ore are separated through crushing and grinding. - This process begins by crushing the ores to a particular size and finishes it by grinding the ores into a powder form.
Comminution
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Involves the separation of the valuable minerals from the raw materials.
Concentration
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Uses the concentration to convert it to usable minerals.
Dewatering
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Natural substances consisting of aggregate minerals clumped together with other Earth materials through natural processes.
Rocks
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- Formed from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava - Has intergrown Crystals, Vesicular Texture, Glassy Texture - Latin word ignis means fire
Igneous Rocks
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Igneous Rocks Two types:
Intrusive Extrusive
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From slowly cooling magma. They cool underneath the surface as plutons.
Intrusive
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From the rapid cooling lava. extruded during volcanic eruption.
Extrusive
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- From the root word sediment which means "remaining particles" - Rocks that have formed from the deposition of different materials on earth surface - Pre-existing rocks or pieces of dead organism that has been cemented by natural process. - Compacted/Cemented Sediments, Layered Sediments, and Fossils or evidence of Life.
Sedimentary rocks
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- rocks that derive from igneous or sedimentary rocks that were exposed to high pressure, high temperature or both. - Meta means "change" - Morph means "form" - Metamorphism means "Change in form" - Banded crystals
Metamorphic rocks
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When the dominant altering factor is pressure, usually due to tectonic activity
Regional Metamorphism
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layered or banded appearance in rocks.
Foliation
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When the dominant altering factor is heat, from direct contact between older rock and an intruding body of magma.
Contact Metamorphism
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like marble and quartzite
Non-foliated metamorphic rock
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The on-site breakdown of rock and its eventual transformation into sediments
Weathering
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Is the physical breakdown of rock into sediments without changing its chemical composition
Physical (Mechanical)
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When plant grows, its root may cause the rock joints to break.
Root Wedging
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Water inside the fractures of rock freeze, it will cause the joints of rocks to expand and grow, causing the pieces of rocks to detach.
Frost Wedging
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The process of splitting of rocks into onion-like sheets parallel to the surface.
Exfoliation
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Wearing down of rocks by friction, water or wind.
Abrasion
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The altering of rocks because of exposure to different substances.
Chemical Weathering
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the reaction of rock minerals with oxygen, changing the mineral composition of the rock.
Oxidation
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Mixing of water with carbon dioxide. Occurs on rocks which contain calcium carbonate such as limestone and chalk.
Carbonation
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When plant, fungi and lichens secrete organic acids that dissolve minerals.
Biological Weathering
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Determining the actual age of a rock or fossil using radioactive decay.
ABSOLUTE DATING
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Determining which rock, fossil, or event came first, second, third, etc.
RELATIVE DATING
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The doctrine suggests that Earth's geologic processes acted in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity in the past as they do in the present and that such uniformity is sufficient to account for all geologic change.
Uniformitarianism
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- New rock layers are always deposited on top of existing rock layers - Therefore, deeper layers must be older than those closer to the surface.
Law of Superposition
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- A layer or stratum must always be older than any feature that cuts or disrupts it. - For example, if a layer is cut by a fault, the layer is older than the fault that cuts across it.
Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships
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This technique assumes that the lowest layer is the oldest while the topmost layer is the youngest layer.
Stratigraphy
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In this technique, the faunal deposits such as fossils of dead animals are used to establish a strategy for dating.
Biostratigraphy
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In this method, the fossils of one layer are compared with another layer with known dating
Cross dating
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- It determines the age of the sample by measuring the amount of a particular radioactive isotope present in the sample. - The age can be determined by the rate of decay of that particular isotope.
Radiometric dating
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Isotopes that tend to break down into stable isotopes of the same or other elements at a steady rate.
Radioactive Isotopes
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- An unstable radioactive isotope of one element breaks down into a stable isotope
Radioactive Decay
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unstable radioactive isotope
parent isotope
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stable isotope produced by the radioactive decay of the parent isotope
daughter isotope
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- The change in the protein content of a biological sample can be used to determine the age. - A particular form of a living being may have a defined protein content in their bodies that deteriorates with time
Amino Acid Dating
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The number of annual growth rings of a dicot is used in this technique to determine the age of the tree.
Dendrochronology
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- This technique determines the final period during which the object absorbs light, emitting electrons. - The age is determined with respect to the emissions.
Thermoluminescence

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