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Using Mineral Resources (pages 80–85). Key Concept: Minerals are the source of gemstones, metals, and a variety of materials used to make many products. A g emstone is a hard, colorful mine r al that is shi n y . . Gemstones are used mainly f or j e w el r y . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Using Mineral Resources (pages 80–85)

Using Mineral Resources(pages 80–85)

Page 2: Using Mineral Resources (pages 80–85)

Key Concept:

Minerals are the source of gemstones, metals, and a

variety of materials used to make many products.

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A gemstone is a hard, colorful mineral that is

shiny.

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Gemstones are used mainly for jewelry.

Examples are rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.

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Minerals such as copper, gold, and silver are called metals.

Metals are usually softer than gemstones.

Metals are used for wires, jewelry, tools, and buildings.

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Other useful minerals include quartz and gypsum.

Quartz is used to make glass.

Gypsum is used to make cement.

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A hard, colorful mineral that is shiny is a(an)

gemstone

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Circle the letter of a mineral that is might be used to

make wire.

gypsumrubycopper

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Circle the letter of a mineral that is used to make glass.

quartzsapphiresilver

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Key Concept: To produce metal from a mineral, a

rock containing the mineral must be located through

prospecting and mined, or removed from the ground.

Then the rock must be processed to extract the

metal.

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Most metals are found in rocks that also contain other substances.

An ore is a rock that contains a metal or other useful mineral.

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A prospector is someone who looks for ore. To find ore, a prospector might look at rocks on the surface and study maps of underground rocks.

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Mining is removing ore from the ground.

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There are different kinds of mines.

For example, in a shaft mine, miners dig tunnels to follow

veins of ore.

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Smelting is removing metal from ore.

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For example, the ore hematite is smelted to

remove iron. In smelting, hematite is crushed, mixed with other materials, and heated.

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After smelting, a metal may be mixed with other substances

to make an alloy.

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An alloy is a solid mixture containing at least one metal.

For example, iron is mixed with carbon to form the alloy steel.

Steel is harder and stronger than pure iron.

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Is the following sentence true or false?

Most metals are found in the ground in pure form.

FALSE

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A solid mixture containing at least one metal is an

alloy

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A rock containing a metal or other useful mineral is

an….

ore

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The process of removing metal from ore is called

smelting

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Someone who looks for ore is a

prospector

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Iron occurs in an ore called

hematite

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Steps in Producing Metals

Prospecting

Smelting

Mining