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2. Descrbe the mineral- 3. Image of the mineral- 4. Describe what the mineral is used for- 5. Where is the mineral found and mined?- What contry or countries can your mineral be found? ||
 * ~ Student Name ||~ Students should past their information about their mineral to this page. ||
 * < Fakey McExample ||< 1. Name of mineral-
 * < Abiola Adun ||< == 1)Barium ==

2) A metal element, soft, and silvery white when pure. 3)[[image:abiolaadun:97711813 caption="barium.JPG"]]
4)This mineral is used as an additive in old well drilling, rubber, paints, plastic, paper and glass manufacturing.

5)It can be found in soil and food such as nuts, seaweed, fish and other plants. || b) Quartz crystals are often twinned, distorted, or so intergrown with adjacent crystals of quartz. colorless and clear.
 * < Nikko Andriotis ||< a) Quartz

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d) It is commonly used to make jelwrey and hardstone carvings. e) Mined in Spruce Pine, North Carolina but also found in the Middle East and Europe. || 2) The mineral iron is a type of rock that has many different shapes and sizes and different colors. 3) 4) Iron is used in steel manufacturing, magnets, medicines, biomedical research, paints, printing inks, plastics, cosmetics, dyes 5) Iron can be found and mined all over the Earth. Countries iron is found in are China, Australia, and Brazil which are the world's largest providers of iron. Including the US and Canada, produce significant amounts. The Michigan and Minnesota regions provide most of the US production of iron ore. || -Copper
 * < Peter Aziz ||< 1) The name of the mineral i found was iron.
 * < Michelle Castaneda ||< 1.Name of the Mineral

2. Physical Description -Copper has a color with weathered specimen tarnished green. It's streak is redding copper color. Copper is ductile, malleable and sectile (meaning it can be pounded into other shapes, stretched into a wire and cut into slices).It is resistant to corrosion; and conducts heat and electricity efficiently.

3. Picture of the Mineral

4. What are the uses of the mineral? Copper is used in building construction, power generation and transmission, electronic product manufacturing, and the production of industrial machinery and transportation vehicles. It is used as wires because of its conductivity. Pennies are coated with coppers. The largest use of copper in a single structure is the creation of the Statue of Liberty (about 80 tons of copper sheets was cut and hammered. Today, copper is used in doorknobs (because of its antimicrobial properties reduce the transfer of germs and diseases), circuitry in silicon chips (enables microprocessors to operate faster and use less energy), and copper rotors (recently been found to increase the efficiency of electric motors, which are a major consumer of electric power).

5. Source of the mineral The amount of copper believed to be accessible for mining on the Earth’s land is 1.6 billion tons. In addition, it is estimated that 0.7 billion tons of copper is available in deep-sea nodules. Copper is known to form as a product of deep sea volcanic actvity.

In the United States, there are three major sources of copper: Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Other Countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, China, Mexico, Russia, and Peru. || 2. Very shine, colorless or can have have many different colors, like yellow, brown, green, blue, pink and very rare red. 3. 4. Diamond is used in cutting tool because it is very hard, used to conduct heat, diamond windows, low friction microbearings. 5. Australia, Botswana, Russia, the Congo Republic and South Africa.
 * < Ashly Chacko ||<  ||
 * < Jessica Cholewa ||<  ||
 * < Monika Dudzik ||< 1. Diamond

[] [] || 2.) A grayish white, fairly tough metal that is also light-weight. 3.) 4. Magnesium alloys are used today in jet engine parts, luggage frames and portable tools. The metal is used in incendiary bombs, signals, and flares. In health, magnesium is important in the activation of amino acids. it also mantains normal heart rhythm, and converts blood sugar into energy. 5.) It can be found in Australia, China, and in the U.S(Salt lake city area) || -Aluminum 2. Describe the mineral – physical description Aluminum is a silvery white and ductile element of the boron group.
 * < Erik Guevera ||< 1.) The name of the mineral is magnesium.
 * < Camelia Hammad ||< 1. Name of the mineral

3. Image of the mineral – it doesn’t have to be a pretty mineral to be useful! 4. Describe what the mineral is used for. Aluminum is used for many things like, it is used to make a motor of a car, to make frames on bikes, also used to make brake handles, tools and many other things.

5. Where is the mineral found and mined? What country or countries. Aluminum is found in manly Australia, followed by China, Brazil, Guinea, and Jamaica || Copper's color is a soft brownish red to deep brick red. Exposure to oxygen will cause the copper to tarnish and turn a teal green color.
 * < Sarah Hernandez ||<  ||
 * < Dijana Kapetanovi ||<  ||
 * < Ola Kasprzyk ||< Copper

Copper is used for electrical conductors, motors, appliances, piping, building material, and constituent of various metal alloys. Most copper ore is mined or [|extracted] as copper sulfides from large [|open pit mines] in [|porphyry copper] deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0 percent copper. Examples include: [|Chuquicamata] in [|Chile] and [|El Chino Mine] in [|New Mexico]. Chile was the top mine producer of copper with at least one-third world share followed by the USA, Indonesia and Peru. || It has shades from white to a dark green with some luster. Jadeite is usually made into jewelery, weapons, and ornaments and decor. Jadeite can be mined in Burma, California, Guatemala, Russia, Japan, Hawaii, and Switzerland. || 2. Pinkish Gold Metal 3. 4. Copper is used in electric conductors, piping, motors, and metal alloys(combining with another metal)** 5. The sources of Copper are Canada, Zambia, Russia, Kazaakhstan, Indonesia, and Chile which has the largest Copper deposite in the world. || Use of minerals- many minerals help construct or help the construction of our transportation they also help in everyday life like preservation of food and materials. We use minerals for electricity,batteries etc. We also use them to make highway and road systemes and the building for foundations 1) Salt 2) white, sandy, rough and very small dissolvable 3)
 * < Micki Laws ||< Jadeite = a common ore for jade
 * < Evan Lopez ||< **1.Copper
 * < Pedro Lopez ||<  ||
 * < Jasmin Markicic ||< Minerals Paperless Unit

4) Salt is used for mostly preservation of food and inhancing the taste of food. Other type of salt can be used for melting ice on highways and streets during the winter. They also use it in manufacturing of many chemicals, for water treatment, paper making, soaps and detergents and petroleum refining. it is estimated that one person will use 28000 pounds of salt in a life time. || 2. It is a green stone with red spots on it. It also occurs in different shades of dark green with red, brown, and other multicolored spots. The iron minerals cause the deep red an brown colors in it. Bloodstone is darkgreen variety of the silica mineral. Polished sections of it show red spots on the dark green background. It resembles to drops of blood that derives its name. Its physical properties are of quartz. 3. || ||
 * < Jaclyn Mazariegos ||<  ||
 * < Nigel Milosevic ||<  ||
 * < Ermin Murati ||<  ||
 * < Kenny Nissan ||< 1. Bloodstone
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4. It was used to stop the bleeding especiall nosebleeds. It is often used for mens jewelry,pendants and necklaces. 5. It is primarily found and mined in India, Australia, U.S, Germany, Scotland, Russia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic. || Calcium is the most abundent element on earth and in the human body. it promotes healthy digestion, helps nerves pass the electrical messages needed to contract the heart and other muscles in the body, it assists in blood clotting, and can help prevent high blood pressure and colon cancer.
 * < Thomas Osvath ||< Calcium



calcium is used in milk and milk products, such as yogurt and cheese. Whole grains and unrefined cereals, green vegetables, bone meal with vitamin D, sardines, salmon, soybeans and peanuts.

calcium is found in nature; rocks, chalk, and seashells. It is found in the bones, muscles, and nerves of animals and in many different plants. || 2) Physical Characteristics: Iron is steel gray or black, malleable, stongly attracted to the magnets, and its luster is metallic.
 * < Harshang Sheth ||< 1) Iron is the most important mineral used in the society.

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4) Uses: Iron is used in steel manufacturing, magnets, medicines, biomedical research, paints, printing inks, plastics, cosmetics, dyes.

5) Location: It is usually found in Antarctica, Arizona, Russia, Greenland, Newzealand. || 2) ||
 * < Jahde Smith ||<  ||
 * < Becka Surma ||<  ||
 * < Ebboney Wilson ||< 1)The mineral I chose was Alumnium