LET'S EXPLORE MINERALS
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What is Minerals?
A mineral is an element or chemical compound that is normally crystalline and that has been formed as a result of geological processes.
Examples include quartz, feldspar minerals, calcite, sulfur, and the clay minerals such as kaolinite and smectite.
A mineral is a pure inorganic substance that occurs naturally in the earth’s crust. More than two thousand minerals have been identified, and most of these are inorganic, which are formed by the various combinations of elements. However, a small proportion of the earth’s crust contains organic materials, consisting of single elements such as gold, silver, diamond, and sulfur.
Knowing all these things about minerals, are you curious how really important it is to us? By scrolling, you will learn and know how much it's contributed to us.
What is the importance of the minerals we have? Mineral resources are vital to our current industrial civilization and are widely used. For example, at breakfast, you drink juice from a glass (made of melted quartz sand), eat from a ceramic plate (made of clay minerals heated at high temperatures), sprinkle salt (halite) on your eggs, use steel utensils (made of iron ore and other minerals), read a magazine (coated with up to 50% kaolinite clay to give it a glossy appearance), 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. Without mineral resources, industry would collapse and living standards would plummet.
Knowing all the importance a mineral has, we can't control and deny that they maybe or can be depleted. As human beings, we are all responsible for taking care of it, so here's how we can help conserve and protect the minerals we have.
How to conserve minerals? Conservation of Mineral Resources The total volume of consumable mineral resources is just 1% of all the minerals present in the earth’s crust. However, the consumption rate is so high that these mineral resources, which are non-renewable, will get exhausted very soon. Here are some measures to conserve minerals:
se of minerals in a planned and sustainable manner. Recycling of metals; use of alternative renewable substitutes. Technology should be improved to use the low-grade ores profitably. Any minerals usually occur as well-developed crystals and are treated in their crystal types. A detailed nomenclature has emerged to classify crystal types, and you may be familiar with some common names. Different properties aid in the detection of other minerals. For certain minerals, these properties may not be distinguishable enough to aid in their detection. And they can only be found in some minerals.
How do we protect the mineral resources we have? We are rapidly consuming mineral resources that require millions of years to be created and concentrated. Minerals can be conserved in the following ways:
• Reduce wastage in the process of mining.
• Recycling of metals using scrap metals.
• Use of alternative renewable substitutes.
• Use of mineral resources in a planned and sustainable manner;
• Use of improved technologies to allow the use of low-grade ores at low costs.
These simple things are the ways we can do to protect the things that contribute a lot to us. This is also a reminder to us that we should be careful on spending our treasure minerals; we should be wise and responsible because later we knew we could lose or never find them again.
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