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What is a mineral?
How do minerals form?
How do we obtain them?
What are several examples of minerals?
What are some uses of minerals?
Please help me!
Thanks so much!

2006-10-10 08:54:53 · 3 answers · asked by unpredictablee&hearts 2 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

3 answers

Look in your science book...or beter yet do a search online

2006-10-10 09:02:54 · answer #1 · answered by ANGEL 5 · 0 2

A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic substance with an orderly arrangement of atoms.
Minerals form from crystallizing molten rocks, from heat and pressure (with or without volatiles, such as water), and from precipitation of ion-rich fluids.
Minerals can be obtain from collecting them in nature, or from purchasing them from someone who collected them.
Several examples of minerals are: garnet, calcite, hornblende, diamond, fluorite, galena, pyrite,quartz, feldspar and turquoise.
Minerals have several uses. Micas have been used as windows and as insulators, many sulfide minerals are used as ores for metals, clay minerals have been used as non-dairy coffee creamer, gypsum is used as sheetrock for building walls, the list goes on and on.

2006-10-10 09:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0 0

What is a mineral? http://webmineral.com/Mineral_Definition.shtml
How do mineral form? http://www.museums.udel.edu/mineral/mineral_site/education/formation.html
How do we obtain them? mining them
What are several examples of minerals? http://webmineral.com/Alphabetical_Listing.shtml (the most common @ earth are silicates: e.g. in a granitic rock: quartz feldspar and mica)
What are some uses of minerals? http://www.mii.org/commonminerals.php

just type your questions on google or similar!

2006-10-10 09:15:22 · answer #3 · answered by Rita 1 · 0 0

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