1.Muscovite Mica
Muscovite is a mineral. It is located in igneous and metamorphic rock. Muscovite is mined in India, Pakistan, Brazil, and the U.S. Muscovite is a insulator. It is heat resistant. It's also used as roofing, cosmetics, and paints.
Muscovite is a mineral. It is located in igneous and metamorphic rock. Muscovite is mined in India, Pakistan, Brazil, and the U.S. Muscovite is a insulator. It is heat resistant. It's also used as roofing, cosmetics, and paints.
2. Boitite Mica
Biotite is a mineral in a group. It is usually found in igneous and metamorphic rock. Biotite is a radioactive element that's used to figure out how old a mineral is. It can be found in chunks that are called books because look like squares with sheets as pages. It's mined underground in. Sudbury, Ontario, Sicily, and Russia. Biotite is mainly used for display in mineral collections. It is a good heat insulator but, Biotite has no industrial uses.
Biotite is a mineral in a group. It is usually found in igneous and metamorphic rock. Biotite is a radioactive element that's used to figure out how old a mineral is. It can be found in chunks that are called books because look like squares with sheets as pages. It's mined underground in. Sudbury, Ontario, Sicily, and Russia. Biotite is mainly used for display in mineral collections. It is a good heat insulator but, Biotite has no industrial uses.
3.Sulfur
Sulfur is found in sedimentary rock. It’s found in places where there volcanoes. Sulfur is mined using underground . Sometimes it is mined from volcanoes that aren’t active anymore. Since it melts easily at low temperatures, very hot salt water is pumped down through pipes into the mine to melt the sulfur. Air is pumped in to push the melted sulfur out. Then the sulfur cools and becomes solid or it is kept hot and melted before it is sent to whoever wants it. Whether it is solid or liquid depends on what it will be used for. This is called the Frasch process. Sulfur is mined in: the USA [Michigan, & Ohio], Sicily, Poland, and Chile. Sulfur's to make and for sulfuric acid. They are used for Fertilizers, plastics, drugs, explosives, and matches.
Sulfur is found in sedimentary rock. It’s found in places where there volcanoes. Sulfur is mined using underground . Sometimes it is mined from volcanoes that aren’t active anymore. Since it melts easily at low temperatures, very hot salt water is pumped down through pipes into the mine to melt the sulfur. Air is pumped in to push the melted sulfur out. Then the sulfur cools and becomes solid or it is kept hot and melted before it is sent to whoever wants it. Whether it is solid or liquid depends on what it will be used for. This is called the Frasch process. Sulfur is mined in: the USA [Michigan, & Ohio], Sicily, Poland, and Chile. Sulfur's to make and for sulfuric acid. They are used for Fertilizers, plastics, drugs, explosives, and matches.
4.Pyrite
Pyrite is also known as "fools gold" because it has a yellow metallic color. Pyrite can
be distinguished from native gold by several different properties. Pyrite is much harder
than gold; it cannot be scratched by a steel straight pin. Pyrite is brittle; it can be crushed
to a powder, whereas gold simply flattens out because it is a metal. A streak test can also
distinguish pyrite from gold; pyrite produces a greenish black streak and gold produces a
yellow streak.Pyrite is used for car batteries, appliances, food cans, paper, tools, some jewelry, and also machinery.It can be dangerous to mine pyrite Because it combines with oxygen and water, it becomes sulfuric acid, and sinks into the ground. Then it travels into aquifers, rivers, and streams and kills everything in it. After they get the pyrite ore out of the ground, it is heated. This takes the iron and sulfur out of it. It is mined all over the world. Most of the pyrite comes from the United States, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and Peru.
Pyrite is also known as "fools gold" because it has a yellow metallic color. Pyrite can
be distinguished from native gold by several different properties. Pyrite is much harder
than gold; it cannot be scratched by a steel straight pin. Pyrite is brittle; it can be crushed
to a powder, whereas gold simply flattens out because it is a metal. A streak test can also
distinguish pyrite from gold; pyrite produces a greenish black streak and gold produces a
yellow streak.Pyrite is used for car batteries, appliances, food cans, paper, tools, some jewelry, and also machinery.It can be dangerous to mine pyrite Because it combines with oxygen and water, it becomes sulfuric acid, and sinks into the ground. Then it travels into aquifers, rivers, and streams and kills everything in it. After they get the pyrite ore out of the ground, it is heated. This takes the iron and sulfur out of it. It is mined all over the world. Most of the pyrite comes from the United States, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and Peru.
5.Magnetite
Magnetite is dark brown to black mineral. It is easy to identify because it is the only
common mineral that can be picked up by a magnet. It produces a black streak. Magnetite is found in Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, and the United States [Franklin, New Jersey, Utah, Arkansas, Vermont. It's used to make steel, magnets, paints, ink, paper, and cosmetics.
Magnetite is dark brown to black mineral. It is easy to identify because it is the only
common mineral that can be picked up by a magnet. It produces a black streak. Magnetite is found in Austria, Switzerland, South Africa, and the United States [Franklin, New Jersey, Utah, Arkansas, Vermont. It's used to make steel, magnets, paints, ink, paper, and cosmetics.
6.Hematite
Hematite ranges in color from a powdery brownish red to black to a metallic black.
A black specimen of hematite can closely resemble magnetite, but hematite is not
magnet and it produces a brownish red streak. Powdered hematite is used as rouge.Hematite is sometimes used as a gemstone. Ground up hematite is red or reddish brown and is used for dying things. Is also used in paints.Chinese doctors also use hematite to cure some sickness. it's also mined in England, Mexico, Australia, Canada, and Brazil.
Hematite ranges in color from a powdery brownish red to black to a metallic black.
A black specimen of hematite can closely resemble magnetite, but hematite is not
magnet and it produces a brownish red streak. Powdered hematite is used as rouge.Hematite is sometimes used as a gemstone. Ground up hematite is red or reddish brown and is used for dying things. Is also used in paints.Chinese doctors also use hematite to cure some sickness. it's also mined in England, Mexico, Australia, Canada, and Brazil.
7.Galena
Galena has a metallic luster and is gray in color. Its most outstanding feature is its
high density; a sample of galena is much heavier than other minerals of the same size.
Galena is a lead ore. Galena also has three directions of cleavage at right angles to
each other; it breaks into shiny metallic-looking cubes.It's found in the U.S.A states Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and in these countries Germany, Peru, Mexico, Zambia, and England.Galena is used in things that are made of lead like bullets, batteries, gasoline, paint, and welding solder. Lead is poisonous when it is swallowed. Sometimes kids would chew on painted things because lead gave the paint a sweet taste. This would make the kids really sick so it isn’t used for this anymore. Johannes Gutenberg also made the letters o his printing press out of lead.
Galena has a metallic luster and is gray in color. Its most outstanding feature is its
high density; a sample of galena is much heavier than other minerals of the same size.
Galena is a lead ore. Galena also has three directions of cleavage at right angles to
each other; it breaks into shiny metallic-looking cubes.It's found in the U.S.A states Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and in these countries Germany, Peru, Mexico, Zambia, and England.Galena is used in things that are made of lead like bullets, batteries, gasoline, paint, and welding solder. Lead is poisonous when it is swallowed. Sometimes kids would chew on painted things because lead gave the paint a sweet taste. This would make the kids really sick so it isn’t used for this anymore. Johannes Gutenberg also made the letters o his printing press out of lead.
8.Olivine
Olivine is a transparent to translucent mineral with a distinct yellow green color.
It often occurs as clusters of small grains in a dark, fine-grained volcanic rock known as
a basalt. Olivine grains only rarely get up to pea-sized. Olivine has not cleavage and
breaks with a conchoidal fracture. If the material is clear and solid enough, it can be
cut and polished and becomes the gemstone olivine. One of the ancient Egyptians’ favorite jewels were the green gemstone that may have been olivine’s. Olivine can be found in small bodies all over the earth.
Olivine is a transparent to translucent mineral with a distinct yellow green color.
It often occurs as clusters of small grains in a dark, fine-grained volcanic rock known as
a basalt. Olivine grains only rarely get up to pea-sized. Olivine has not cleavage and
breaks with a conchoidal fracture. If the material is clear and solid enough, it can be
cut and polished and becomes the gemstone olivine. One of the ancient Egyptians’ favorite jewels were the green gemstone that may have been olivine’s. Olivine can be found in small bodies all over the earth.
9.Azurite
Azurite is a bright blue mineral associated with copper ore. It may occur with green
malachite, also a copper ore. It is relatively soft at 3.5 on Mohs scale of hardness.
Azurite can be found in many places around the world. You can find azurite in the Ural mountains of Russia and in Bisbee, Arizona.
Azurite is a bright blue mineral associated with copper ore. It may occur with green
malachite, also a copper ore. It is relatively soft at 3.5 on Mohs scale of hardness.
Azurite can be found in many places around the world. You can find azurite in the Ural mountains of Russia and in Bisbee, Arizona.
10.Malachite
Malachite is a rich green to dark green copper mineral. It can occur on its own or
with azurite, a mineral that it is closely related to in chemistry. It is relatively soft at
3.5 on Mohs scale of hardness.Malachite is a dark green crystal that was thought to healing powers. Malachite is usually found in Russia, Austrian, Brittan, France ad the United States. Malachite is found in The United States [California, Texas], Germany, Austria, South Africa, and Scotland.Talc is used for electric and scientific products. It resists heat, electricity, and acid. It's used in paints, rubber, and paper.
Malachite is a rich green to dark green copper mineral. It can occur on its own or
with azurite, a mineral that it is closely related to in chemistry. It is relatively soft at
3.5 on Mohs scale of hardness.Malachite is a dark green crystal that was thought to healing powers. Malachite is usually found in Russia, Austrian, Brittan, France ad the United States. Malachite is found in The United States [California, Texas], Germany, Austria, South Africa, and Scotland.Talc is used for electric and scientific products. It resists heat, electricity, and acid. It's used in paints, rubber, and paper.
11.Talc
Alc is a Mineral that is found in igneous and metamorphic rock. Sometimes it's called soapstone. It's a kind of Mica. Tacl forms when rocks with magnesium in them are changed by erosion or weathering with heat and water. Talc is mined all over the earth and are mined The United States [California, Texas], Germany, Austria, South Africa, and Scotland.Talc can be used for electrical and scientific products because it is resistant to heat, electricity, and acid. It is used in paints, rubber, insecticides, and paper.
Alc is a Mineral that is found in igneous and metamorphic rock. Sometimes it's called soapstone. It's a kind of Mica. Tacl forms when rocks with magnesium in them are changed by erosion or weathering with heat and water. Talc is mined all over the earth and are mined The United States [California, Texas], Germany, Austria, South Africa, and Scotland.Talc can be used for electrical and scientific products because it is resistant to heat, electricity, and acid. It is used in paints, rubber, insecticides, and paper.
12.Gypsum
Gypsum is a sedimentary mineral. It's found in layers that were formed under salt water millions of years ago. The water evaporated and left the minerals. Gypsum is mined in France, Mexico, Sicily, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and California. Gypsum is used in wallboard, big sheets of a plaster-like substance covered with paper. Wallboard is used to make new walls in buildings. It is also used in Plaster of Paris, cement, fertilizer, and ornamental stone. It is also used in cement to keep it from hardening too fast. When water is added to gypsum powder, it becomes hard as rock. This is what's used to make plaster casts for broken arms and legs.
Gypsum is a sedimentary mineral. It's found in layers that were formed under salt water millions of years ago. The water evaporated and left the minerals. Gypsum is mined in France, Mexico, Sicily, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and California. Gypsum is used in wallboard, big sheets of a plaster-like substance covered with paper. Wallboard is used to make new walls in buildings. It is also used in Plaster of Paris, cement, fertilizer, and ornamental stone. It is also used in cement to keep it from hardening too fast. When water is added to gypsum powder, it becomes hard as rock. This is what's used to make plaster casts for broken arms and legs.
13.Milky Quartz
Quartz is probably the most common mineral on the Earth. Quartz is found in sandstones, granites, and other igneous rocks. There is a lot of water and heat where they form. The crystals are made when the quartz cools down. The way a crystal looks depends on how warm it was when it was formed. Quartz is mined mostly by surface mining. A backhoe is used to take away the dirt and rock that's covering the vein. Only large mines own and use heavy equipment every the time. The miners might possibly blast with explosives but they will use the littlest amount to get the job done. They will work by hand with a pick and shovel once they can see the quartz. They could use tools like chisels, pry bars, and other dentist tools to get the quartz out without damaging it. They don't want to damage it because it might not sell for as much money. Next the quartz is taken out, wrapped in newspaper, and put in some kind of box or container until it can be taken to be cleaned. Quartz is mined in: Brazil and the U.S.A. : Arkansas. Quartz is used in radios, as gems, sandpaper, soap, glass, paint, clocks, watches, and computers. It is also used for radar, radios, and TVs because it conducts electricity.
Quartz is probably the most common mineral on the Earth. Quartz is found in sandstones, granites, and other igneous rocks. There is a lot of water and heat where they form. The crystals are made when the quartz cools down. The way a crystal looks depends on how warm it was when it was formed. Quartz is mined mostly by surface mining. A backhoe is used to take away the dirt and rock that's covering the vein. Only large mines own and use heavy equipment every the time. The miners might possibly blast with explosives but they will use the littlest amount to get the job done. They will work by hand with a pick and shovel once they can see the quartz. They could use tools like chisels, pry bars, and other dentist tools to get the quartz out without damaging it. They don't want to damage it because it might not sell for as much money. Next the quartz is taken out, wrapped in newspaper, and put in some kind of box or container until it can be taken to be cleaned. Quartz is mined in: Brazil and the U.S.A. : Arkansas. Quartz is used in radios, as gems, sandpaper, soap, glass, paint, clocks, watches, and computers. It is also used for radar, radios, and TVs because it conducts electricity.
14.Rose Quartz
Quartz is probably the most common mineral on the Earth. Quartz is found in sandstones, granites, and other igneous rocks. There is a lot of water and heat where they form. The crystals are made when the quartz cools down. The way a crystal looks depends on how warm it was when it was formed. Quartz is mined mostly by surface mining. A backhoe is used to take away the dirt and rock that's covering the vein. Only large mines own and use heavy equipment every the time. The miners might possibly blast with explosives but they will use the littlest amount to get the job done. They will work by hand with a pick and shovel once they can see the quartz. They could use tools like chisels, pry bars, and other dentist tools to get the quartz out without damaging it. They don't want to damage it because it might not sell for as much money. Next the quartz is taken out, wrapped in newspaper, and put in some kind of box or container until it can be taken to be cleaned. Quartz is mined in: Brazil and the U.S.A. : Arkansas. Quartz is used in radios, as gems, sandpaper, soap, glass, paint, clocks, watches, and computers. It is also used for radar, radios, and TVs because it conducts electricity.
Quartz is probably the most common mineral on the Earth. Quartz is found in sandstones, granites, and other igneous rocks. There is a lot of water and heat where they form. The crystals are made when the quartz cools down. The way a crystal looks depends on how warm it was when it was formed. Quartz is mined mostly by surface mining. A backhoe is used to take away the dirt and rock that's covering the vein. Only large mines own and use heavy equipment every the time. The miners might possibly blast with explosives but they will use the littlest amount to get the job done. They will work by hand with a pick and shovel once they can see the quartz. They could use tools like chisels, pry bars, and other dentist tools to get the quartz out without damaging it. They don't want to damage it because it might not sell for as much money. Next the quartz is taken out, wrapped in newspaper, and put in some kind of box or container until it can be taken to be cleaned. Quartz is mined in: Brazil and the U.S.A. : Arkansas. Quartz is used in radios, as gems, sandpaper, soap, glass, paint, clocks, watches, and computers. It is also used for radar, radios, and TVs because it conducts electricity.
15.Amethyst
Amethyst is most comanly known as the birthstone for February. It is usually connected to granite rock. It can be found with igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock. Amethyst is mined underground. It is also found in chunks attached to granite. It is mined in: Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Canada, Zambia, South Africa, and the United States:North Carolina, Maine, Pennsylvania, Arizona. Amethyst is omly used in jewelry and stones for display.
Amethyst is most comanly known as the birthstone for February. It is usually connected to granite rock. It can be found with igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock. Amethyst is mined underground. It is also found in chunks attached to granite. It is mined in: Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Canada, Zambia, South Africa, and the United States:North Carolina, Maine, Pennsylvania, Arizona. Amethyst is omly used in jewelry and stones for display.
16.Agate
Agate is a cryptocrystalline. That means a variety of quartz that the actual fibers of quartz
are so small that they can barely be seen with a regular microscope. Agate is formed most often
as a series of colored bands and rough agate has a dull to waxy type texture. Agate polishes to a
high gloss and it is a semi-precious gemstone.
Agate is a cryptocrystalline. That means a variety of quartz that the actual fibers of quartz
are so small that they can barely be seen with a regular microscope. Agate is formed most often
as a series of colored bands and rough agate has a dull to waxy type texture. Agate polishes to a
high gloss and it is a semi-precious gemstone.
17.Feldspar
Orthoclase feldspar is a common silicate mineral. It is responsible for the pink to red
colors found in the igneous rock and in granite. The most common color of orthoclase is a pinkish orange, but it may also be found rarley in white or pale bluish-green. It's grains are mostly less than one eighth of an inch. Large, pure pieces of orthoclase are mostly found on display in two directions of cleavage at right angles to each other. It also has a hardness of 6 on Mohs scale of hardness and therefore can be scratched
by a piece of quartz. It is found in Italy, Turkey, and China.
Orthoclase feldspar is a common silicate mineral. It is responsible for the pink to red
colors found in the igneous rock and in granite. The most common color of orthoclase is a pinkish orange, but it may also be found rarley in white or pale bluish-green. It's grains are mostly less than one eighth of an inch. Large, pure pieces of orthoclase are mostly found on display in two directions of cleavage at right angles to each other. It also has a hardness of 6 on Mohs scale of hardness and therefore can be scratched
by a piece of quartz. It is found in Italy, Turkey, and China.
18.Calcite
Calcite is mostly commonly found in sedimentary rock. Calcite can turn into the rock called limestone. Some limestone is made once sea creatures die and their bones and shells fall to the ocean floor. They pile on top of each other, push on the lower layers, and the pressure makes limestone. All limestone starts in water. There are places in the middle of the United States where there used to be a sea. The water has been gone for millions of years now. Even though it’s dry, limestone can be found there. If you add pressure and a lot of heat to limestone, it changes into marble, a metamorphic rock. Calcite is mined underground. If the calcite is not far underground, then quarrying is used. If it is too far underground for quarrying to work, then underground mining is used. It is found in New Jersey , Tennessee, Illinois, and other states of the U.S. It is also found in Mexico, Germany, India, England, and other parts of the world.Calcite/limestone is used for making glass, paper, photography, statues, building, and animal food. The Ancient Egyptian Sphinx is made of limestone rock too.
Calcite is mostly commonly found in sedimentary rock. Calcite can turn into the rock called limestone. Some limestone is made once sea creatures die and their bones and shells fall to the ocean floor. They pile on top of each other, push on the lower layers, and the pressure makes limestone. All limestone starts in water. There are places in the middle of the United States where there used to be a sea. The water has been gone for millions of years now. Even though it’s dry, limestone can be found there. If you add pressure and a lot of heat to limestone, it changes into marble, a metamorphic rock. Calcite is mined underground. If the calcite is not far underground, then quarrying is used. If it is too far underground for quarrying to work, then underground mining is used. It is found in New Jersey , Tennessee, Illinois, and other states of the U.S. It is also found in Mexico, Germany, India, England, and other parts of the world.Calcite/limestone is used for making glass, paper, photography, statues, building, and animal food. The Ancient Egyptian Sphinx is made of limestone rock too.
19.Flourite
It is sometimes easy to mistake fluorite for calcite on a quick examination. However, if
you pay careful attention, fluorite has four directions of cleavage compared to three
directions of cleavage for calcite. Fluorite is also harder than calcite and can scratch a piece of calcite. Fluorite is often more colorful than calcite and can be purple, green, yellow, pink, brown, or colorless and may even show two or more colors on the same specimen. Fluorite crystals are usually cubes or octahedrons. Above
all, fluorite does not fizz in contact with hydrochloric acid.
It is sometimes easy to mistake fluorite for calcite on a quick examination. However, if
you pay careful attention, fluorite has four directions of cleavage compared to three
directions of cleavage for calcite. Fluorite is also harder than calcite and can scratch a piece of calcite. Fluorite is often more colorful than calcite and can be purple, green, yellow, pink, brown, or colorless and may even show two or more colors on the same specimen. Fluorite crystals are usually cubes or octahedrons. Above
all, fluorite does not fizz in contact with hydrochloric acid.
20.Graphite
Graphite is one of the two kinds of carbon. The other one is diamond which is harder than graphite. Diamonds that are close to the surface of the Earth are slowly changing into graphite. Graphite is made by the changes in igneous and metamorphic rocks. It's formed when plants, rocks, and organic things in limestone areas change over time.Graphite is mined using underground mining and surface quarrying. The way it is mined depends on how deep into the Earth the graphite is. It is mined in: China, Brazil, Canada, Malagasy, Norway, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. Graphite is used for the lead in pencils, to make steel stronger, and as a lubricant.
Graphite is one of the two kinds of carbon. The other one is diamond which is harder than graphite. Diamonds that are close to the surface of the Earth are slowly changing into graphite. Graphite is made by the changes in igneous and metamorphic rocks. It's formed when plants, rocks, and organic things in limestone areas change over time.Graphite is mined using underground mining and surface quarrying. The way it is mined depends on how deep into the Earth the graphite is. It is mined in: China, Brazil, Canada, Malagasy, Norway, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. Graphite is used for the lead in pencils, to make steel stronger, and as a lubricant.