Science Reviewer Presentations #4 Identify the minerals important to society

Question 1

Are crucial to industrializing any society. Therefore, areas of the world that are now transitioning from developing to industrialized societies, exhibit a rapidly growing demand for raw minerals.

Answer 1

Iron, copper, zinc, and alloy metals

Question 2

The smooth running of modern society depends upon ____________. For the foreseeable future, most of this supply must be extracted from the ground.

Answer 2

abundant supplies of mineral raw resources

Question 3

Phosphate rock, potash, and lime are used in agricultural fertilizers, and other mineral products are used to improve soil. The water you drink uses minerals to make it clean.

Answer 3

Agriculture

Question 4

About 60 tonnes of aggregate are used to build an average house in the UK. If we include the associated infrastructure, this can be as high as 400 tonnes.

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Construction:

Question 5

Are used in building houses, schools, libraries, hospitals, offices, and shops. Buildings use a wide range of minerals:

Answer 5

Minerals

Question 6

In the framework of large building,

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Iron(as steel)

Question 7

In bricks and roofing tiles

Answer 7

Clay

Question 8

For roofing tiles

Answer 8

Slate

Question 9

In cement

Answer 9

Limestone, clay, shale and gypsum

Question 10

In plaster

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Gypsum

Question 11

In window glass

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Silica sand

Question 12

As aggregates for fill and in concrete

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Sand and gravel and crushed rock

Question 13

For plumbing and wiring

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Copper

Question 14

For bathroom fixtures and fitting and tiles

Answer 14

Clays

Question 15

May include pigments, extenders, and fillers from mineral sources.

Answer 15

Paint

Question 16

Are the most abundant crustal elements, together comprising elements, together comprising more than 70 percent by weight? It is therefore not surprising that the most abundant crustal minerals are the silicates (e. g. olivine, Mg2SiO4), followed by the oxides (e. g. hematite, Fe203)

Answer 16

Silicon and oxygen

Question 17

are essential to our modern industrial society and they are used everywhere. For example, at breakfast, you drink some juice in a glass (made from melted quartz sand), eat from a ceramic plate (created from clay minerals heated at high temperatures), sprinkle salt (halite) on your eggs, use steel utensils (from iron ore and other minerals), read a magazine (coated with up to 50% kaolinite clay to give the glossy look), and answer your cellphone (containing over 40 different minerals including copper, silver, gold, and platinum). We need minerals to make cars, computers, appliances, concrete roads, houses, tractors, fertilizer, electrical transmission lines, and jewelry.

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Mineral Resources

Question 18

Minerals that are of economic value can be classified as metallic or nonmetallic. Metallic Minerals are those from which valuable metals (e.g. iron, copper) can be extracted for commercial use. Metals that are considered geochemically abundant occur at crustal abundances of 0.1 percent or more (e.g. iron, aluminum, manganese, magnesium, titanium). Metals that are considered geochemically scarce occur at crustal abundances of less than 0.1 percent (e.g. nickel, copper, zinc, platinum metals). Some important metallic minerals are: hematite (a source of iron), bauxite (a source of aluminum), sphalerite (a source of zinc) and galena (a source of lead). Metallic minerals occasionally but rarely occur as a single element (e.g. native gold or copper).

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Economic value of Minerals

Question 19

Are those from which valuable metals (e.g. iron, copper) can be extracted for commercial use?

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Metallic Minerals

Question 20

reserves consist of stone quarries and clay and sand pits chemical and fertiliser mineral deposits salt deposits deposits of quartz, gypsum, natural gem stones, asphalt and bitumen, peat and other non-metallic minerals other than coal and petroleum.

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Non Metallic Minerals

Question 21

A geologist defines a _________ as a naturally occurring inorganic solid with defined chemical composition and crystal structure (regular arrangement of atoms).

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Mineral