MINERAL CHEMICAL IMAGE OF THE MINERAL DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCT ECONOMIC USE

NAME FORMULA THE MINERAL

SILVER AG Silver It is used

(Ag) has a for jewellery
and silver
bright,
tableware,
metallic where
luster, and appearance
when is important.
untarnished, Silver is used
has a white to make
mirrors, as it
color. It is
is the best
rarely found in reflector of
its native form. visible light
Silver can be known,
found although it
combined with does tarnish
with time. It
a number of
is also used
different in dental
elements such alloys, solder
as sulfur, and brazing
arsenichlorine alloys,
to form a electrical
contacts and
variety of
batteries.
minerals and
ores, such as
argentite,
chlorargyrite,
and galena
GOLD AU It is a The
bright, primary
slightly role of gold
orange- mining in
yellow, the
dense, economy
soft, is wealth
malleable, creation.
and Wealth is
ductile generated
metal in a by finding,
pure form. delineating,
Chemically, and
gold is a developing
transition economic
metal and gold
a group 11 deposits
element. It and, then,
is one of mining,
the least recovering
reactive and selling
chemical gold from
elements them.
and is solid Thus,
under economic
standard deposits
conditions. are the
focal point
of the gold-
supply
process.
IRO Fe20 Iron ores Iron ore is
are rocks and the source
N 3 minerals from of primary
ORE which metallic iron for
iron can be the
extracted. world's
There are four iron and
main types of steel
iron ore industries.
deposit: It is
massive therefore
hematite, essential
which is the for the
most production
commonly of steel,
mined, which in
magnetite, turn is
titanomagnetite essential to
, and pisolitic maintain a
ironstone. strong
These ores industrial
vary in colour base.
from dark grey, Almost all
bright yellow, (98%) iron
or deep purple ore is used
to rusty red. in
steelmakin
g
COBALT Co Cobalt On a global
(Co) is basis, the
a bluish- leading use of
gray, cobalt is
shiny, in rechargeable
brittle battery
metallic electrodes.
element.
It has
magnetic
properties
similar to
iron. There
are no
significant
minerals
of cobalt.
It is rare
and
obtained
mostly
through
refining of
nickel ore.
 Chemical It flavors
SODIU NA element, food and is
M symbol:
Na, atomic
used as a
binder and
number: 11 stabilizer. It
and atomic is also a food
weight preservative,
22,9898. as bacteria
It's a soft can't thrive in
metal, the presence
reactive of a high
and with a amount of
low salt. The
melting human body
point, with requires a
a relative small amount
density of of sodium to
0,97 at conduct nerve
20ºC impulses,
(68ºF). contract and
From the relax muscles,
commercia and maintain
l point of the proper
view, balance of
sodium is water and
the most minerals
important
of all the
alkaline
metals.
IRON FE Iron is a The vast
mineral that majority of
the body iron ore is
needs for used to
growth and produce
development. iron which
Your body is in turn
uses iron to used to
make produce
hemoglobin, a steel. 98%
protein in red of the iron
blood cells ore mined
that carries today is
oxygen from used for
the lungs to all steel
parts of the production.
body, and This
myoglobin, a includes
protein that staples,
provides cars, and
oxygen to steel beams
muscles. Your used in the
body also construction
needs iron to of buildings
make some and just
hormones. about
anything
else where
iron and
steel are
needed.
CHROMIU C Description. The primary uses
Chromium (Cr) of chromium are
M r is a hard, bluish in stainless
steels,
metallic element. nonferrous alloys
The only ore of and chromium
chromium is the plating. Chromite 
mineral chromite a ore can also be
nd 99 percent of roasted to make
sodium
the world's
dichromate, which
chromite is found is subsequently
in southern Africa converted to
and Zimbabwe. chromium
chemicals used in
pigments and
metal coatings

Zinc is a Zinc uses

ZINC ZN chemical range
from metal
element products to
with the rubber and
symbol Zn medicines.
About three-
and atomic fourths of
number 30. zinc used is
Zinc is a consumed
slightly as metal,
mainly as a
brittle metal coating to
at room protect iron
temperature and steel
from
and has a corrosion
shiny- (galvanized
greyish metal), as
appearance alloying
metal to
when make
oxidation is bronze and
removed. It brass, as
is the first zinc-based
die casting
element in alloy, and
 group 12 as rolled
zinc
(IIB) of the
periodic
table.

POTASSIU K Potassium The

is an greatest
M essential demand for
mineral that potassium
is needed compounds
by all is in
tissues in fertilisers.
the body. It Many other
is potassium
sometimes salts are of
referred to great
as an importance,
electrolyte including the
because it nitrate,
carries a carbonate,
small chloride,
electrical bromide,
charge that cyanide and
activates sulfate.
various cell Potassium
and nerve carbonate is
functions. used in the
Potassium is manufacture
found of glass.
naturally in Potassium
many foods hydroxide is
and as a used to
supplement. make
detergent
and liquid
soap.
CALCIUM Ca Calcium is Calcium is also
a chemical used in
element the production
with the of some
symbol Ca metals, as an
and atomic allying agent.
number 20. Calcium
As an carbonate is
alkaline used to make
earth metal, cement and
calcium is a mortar and
reactive also in the
metal that glass industry.
forms a dark alcium
oxide-nitride carbonate is
layer when also added to
exposed to toothpaste and
air. Its mineral
physical and supplements.
chemical Calcium
properties carbide is used
are most to make
similar to its plastics and to
heavier make
homologues acetylene gas.
strontium
and barium.