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Minerals are naturally occurring inorganic solid substances that have a defined crystalline structure. There are 7 main types of minerals: native elements, silicates, oxides, sulfides, sulfates, halides, and carbonates. Minerals can be identified by being naturally occurring, having an orderly crystalline structure, being inorganic solids, and having a definite chemical composition. Important minerals provide metals that are used in many aspects of modern society such as transport, energy production, housing, healthcare, food production, and technology.
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- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness ranks minerals based on their ability to scratch one another, ranging from talc (softest) to diamond (hardest). Common minerals that are used as examples on the scale include calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase feldspar, quartz, topaz, corundum, and diamond.
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Minerals are naturally occurring solid substances with distinct chemical compositions and internal crystal structures. They combine to form rocks. The main types of minerals include sulfides, carbonates, silicates, oxides, clays, silica, and halides. Mineral processing involves mechanical treatment like crushing and grinding to separate valuable minerals, often using gravity or flotation separation techniques. Mining excavates materials from the Earth's crust, while flotation is the most widely used process for extracting many minerals from their ores by altering surface properties. Ore refers to minerals rich enough in economically important elements to profitably extract.
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- 1. MINERALS PRESENTED BY:ANGELAMAE P. ANTONIO
- 2. WHAT IS MINERALS? Minerals are substances that are formed naturally in the Earth. Minerals are usually solid, inorganic, have a crystal structure, and form naturally by geological processes. The study of minerals is called mineralogy. A mineral can be made of single chemical element or more usually a compound.
- 3. HOW DO WE IDENTIFY MINERALS? It should be naturally occurring. It should have an orderly/defined crystalline structure. It should be an inorganic solid. It should have a definite chemical composition.
- 4. WHAT ARE THE 7 TYPES OF MINERALS? The classes are: native elements Silicates Oxides Sulfides Sulfates Halides Carbonates Phosphates mineraloids.
- 5. WHAT IS NATIVE ELEMENT? Native Elements are those elements that occur in nature in uncombined form with a distinct mineral structure
- 6. WHAT IS SILICATE? A silicate is any member of a family of anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula [SiO. 4−x] n, where 0 ≤ x < 2.
- 7. WHAT IS OXIDE? The oxide mineral class includes those minerals in which the oxide anion (O2−) is bonded to one or more metal ion.
- 8. WHAT IS SULFIDES? The sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide or persulfide as the major anion. Some sulfide minerals are economically important as metal ores.
- 9. WHAT IS SULFATES? The sulfate minerals are a class of minerals that include the sulfate ion within their structure. The sulfate minerals occur commonly in primary evaporate depositional environments, as gangue minerals in hydrothermal veins.
- 10. WHAT IS HALIDES? The halide mineral class include those minerals with a dominant halide anion. Complex halide minerals may also have polyatomic anions in addition to or that include halides.
- 11. WHAT IS CARBONATES? Carbonate minerals are those minerals containing the carbonate ion, CO₃²⁻.
- 12. WHAT IS PHOSPHATES? Phosphate minerals contain the tetrahedrally coordinated phosphate anion along sometimes with arsenate and vanadate substitutions.
- 13. WHAT IS MINERALOIDS? A mineraloid is a naturally-occurring mineral-like substance that does not demonstrate crystallinity. Mineraloids possess chemical compositions that vary beyond the generally accepted ranges for specific minerals.
- 14. TRIVIA: •Are all minerals considered a rock? Answer: Rocks are made of minerals but minerals are not made of rocks. Minerals can stand alone because they have a specific chemical composition and a crystalline structure.
- 15. IMPORTANCE OF MINERALS? Minerals and metals are essential for modern living. ... Metals are used in almost every aspect of modern society, from transport to energy, housing to healthcare, food to technology. Innovation continues apace to develop ever more useful alloys for wider and more specialised applications.
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