PPT-Major Minerals

and Electrolytes Calcium Phosphorus Magnesium Sodium Chloride Potassium Copyright Copyright Texas Education Agency 2012 These Materials are copyrighted and trademarked as the property of the Texas Education Agency TEA and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of TEA except under the following conditions. Eccleston. George Shires. Christopher Houston. Sizing Up Shale States. A Comparison of Mineral Law in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota. Shale Plays in the United States. State Activity. Ohio. 365 wells drilled in 2011. Is dependent on crustal abundance. Elements and minerals are not equally represented or distributed in the earth’s crust. Countries and companies have mineral reserves. Known quantity that can be realistically recovered by mining. How is the silicon-oxygen tetrahedron illustrated?. How are minerals used?. Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education. Types of Minerals. Review. chemical bond. New. silicate. tetrahedron. ore. gem. Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education.  . Minerals play an important role in forming rocks and shaping Earth’s surface. When humans began making tools out of iron great progress was made in advancing the world through industries Below is a timeline showing how the value and uses of minerals have changed over time .. All rocks are made up of 2 or more of these minerals. . Minerals are not rocks!. Silicon and oxygen are the most abundant elements in the crust and in minerals. Oxygen is the most abundant element in minerals. Chapter 5. Minerals of Earth’s Crust. Chapter. 5. Standards. SES2d. Associate specific plate . tectonic . settings . with the production of particular groups of igneous and metamorphic rocks and mineral resources. naturally. existing . chemical compounds.. 2)Minerals can be identified by their . physical properties. .. 3)What are the four characteristics of a mineral?. Naturally occurring. Crystal Structure/Chemical Substance. …the same type of mineral! They are examples of quartz!!. Haha! Tricked you! These are all…. There are over 3000 types of minerals in the Earth’s crust. As you could see with the quartz, often times even the . 20. th. September 2016, EP Product Material Compliance Team. . Supplier Training. Abbreviation. CM – Conflict . Minerals. SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission. Form SD – Form Specialized Disclosure. excludes synthetic minerals. inorganic. non living processes form them. chemically specific. has a unique proportion of elements. crystalline solid. atoms are arranged in specific 3-D patterns. Definition:. we use.. Human History: Stone age, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age.. 7 metals of antiquity: Gold (8000 yra); copper (6200 yra); silver (6000 yra); lead (5500 yra); tin (3750 yra); iron (3500 yra); mercury (2750 yra). properties. Classification of Minerals. Metallic Ferrous. . Non-ferrous. . Precious. Non-metallic. Energy Minerals. CLASSIFICATION OF MINERALS. METALLIC. ENERGY. NON - METALLIC. FERROUS. PRECIOUS. Geo 281: geology for engineers. Geology and Geophysics Department. King Saud University. Minerals: Building. Blocks of Rocks. We begin our discussion of Earth . materials with . an overview of . mineralogy (mineral = mineral and Logy=Study) because . Background Information!. The Earth’s crust is made of mostly rocks and soil.. The rocks are made of different combinations of . minerals.. Minerals . are made of . elements. . (. Remember an element .