How do we use rocks and minerals in our daliy lives?
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Salt?\n\nIodized salt?\n\nConstruction?\n\nDietary supplements?\n\nFluoridated tap water?\n\n@@@@@@@@@@@\n\n"Salt occurs naturally in many parts of the world as the mineral halite."
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There's a couple that I consider necessary for survival.  One is:\n\nRollinson, H., 1993, Using Geochemical Data: Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation; Pearson/Prentice Hall\n\nIt's a geochemistry book, but a PRACTICAL one.  It helped me get through my undergrad, and I'm using it again right now!\n\nThe "bible" for mineralogy is:\n\nNesse, W.D., 1991, Introduction to Optical Mineralogy, Second Edition; Oxford University Press\n\nIt's pretty much the standard, and still the best.  There are a couple different edtions.  I prefer the 2nd one to the third edtion.\n\nAlso, for petrography, get your hands on all the mineral atlases you can.  They are indespensible.\n\nWatch out though - buying geology references books can be addictive!  Have fun :)
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1. The difference between rocks & minerals\nhttp://www.rocks-and-minerals.com/ gives a simple but good explanation of the difference between rocks & minerals.\n\nIt is not easy to tell the difference between rocks & minerals because there are so many kinds of them. It takes years of study to be able to accurately identify a mystery rock and even then rockhounds want to know where the specimen came from. \n\nRocks\nAll rocks are made of 2 or more minerals, but minerals are not made of rocks. To see some pictures of different kinds of rocks, click here.\n\nRock Words: There are many common names for rocks and the usually give you an idea of how big the rock is. Here are a few:\n boulder - large, taller than a person \n rock - large, you could get your arms around it or a bit smaller but it is usually jagged, broken off a bigger piece of rock  \n river rock - round rocks that are along the edge & at the bottom of fast-flowing rivers  \n stone - medium, you could hold it in two hands  \n pebble - small, you can hold it with two fingers, could get stuck in your shoe, usually rounded  \n sand - made up of tiny pieces of rock, grains of sand  \n grain - tiny, like a grain of rice or smaller, often found on a beach  \n dust - really fine powder that is mixed in with sand or soil  \n mountain - huge, giant hunk of rock that is still attached to the earth's crust, doesn't move, tall  \n\n\nFor an excellent Rock Identification test, click on http://www.bwctc.northants.sch.uk/html/projects/science/ks34/rocks/key.html\n\n \n\nMinerals\nA mineral is the same all the way through. That is one reason we speak of a sample or a specimen rather than a rock. There are about 3000 known minerals on earth. Al rocks are made up of 2 or more of these minerals. To find out more about different kinds of minerals, click here.
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Salt is a mineral, and probably is present everywhere in the world. I've heard that Native Americans traded salt among themselves long before we came here.
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To add elements and minerals to the body in the form of calcuim, potassium, iron, etc.
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look here http://www.rocksandminerals.adventuresinodyssey.be/
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The rocks are no problem. You can go outside & find those.\n\nIgneous rocks include granite & diorite which are relatively easy to find. They are commonly used around driveways & railroad tracks.\n\nSedimentary rocks can be shale, sandstones, conglomerates, limestone, mudstones, etc. Depending on where you live it may be harder to find these.\n\nMetamorphic rocks might also be a problem unless you live somewhere near the mountains. If you have a piece of marble or slate used in flooring & countertops, they are easier to get a hold of.\n\nThe fossils are harder to get unless you actually go out to a riverbed or live near a site known to contain fossils. Your best bet would be to search the net for a reputable dealer or find a store near where you live.\n\nHappy rock & fossil hunting & good luck on the project. :)
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For my science fair, I grew crystals.  My dad teaches at the high school I went to, and the physics teacher there told him about it.  Here's a neat site that explains how to do it.  I found it fascinating!\n\nhttp://www.sdnhm.org/kids/minerals/grow-crystal.html
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Greetings,\n\nSedimentary rocks have many uses.\n\n1.  Fossils are found in sedimentary rocks.  By analyzing the composition and age of the rock they are able to determine when the animal that made the fossil lived.\n\n2. Limestone and sandstone are two kinds of sedimtary rocks.  If you've ever drank from a cool crisp mountain stream you've probably drank water filtered through limestone or sandstone.\n\n3. Visit the badlands of North or South Dakota in the U.S. and you'll see sedimtary rock of immense beauty.\n\nThere are more uses I'm sure, but I'm supposed to be working.  Good luck with your question.\n\n-matt
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Answering the question would be easier if I knew which type of mineral you were looking for.  Try looking on this link:\n\nhttp://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/table.shtml\n\nIf you are looking to purchase, there are many people willing to take your money.  For information and more reasonable prices, there are rockshops (non new age) sprinkled through out the country, and the 2 best gems shows are in Denver & Tuscon.\n\nThe next issue is size.  In different mineral species, different sizes are considered large.  For example, quartz crystals up to the size of a gallon jug are found in Mt Ida, AK while selenites have been found in Mexico up to 20 ft tall (note that these are single crystals, not undifferentiated masses).  The largest rhodocrosite is about 6.5 inches per face (in the Denver Natural History Museum), the largest calcite is around 2 foot long (Shifferdecker Museum in Joplin, Mo).  With my friends, I have found a 14" double terminated calcite in Okhlahoma, and a nearly 2 foot selenite in Kansas.\n\nSolution minerals are more typically accessable when compared  with igneous ones, but all the hugest crystals are of igneous origin.  Most of the world record holders are so big thay can never be moved from the mine, unless destroyed.\nIf you seek mineral materiel without reference to single crystals, rough is available in masses shipped in either oil barrels or box cars, usually for industry or amature lapidary work.\n\nIf you are seeking gem materiel, it is unlikely that you can find it for a price within reason, even the synthetics. \n\nIf you are seeking geodes, the warsaw shale is the place to look.  It extends through out the midwest.\n\nThere are groups of rockhounds all over, and we go forth to find exactly what you are seeking.  However, there is actual physical labor involved, and possibly travel costs.  You might consider also speaking a professor with the local college in your area.
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Rock is a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids. Rocks are classified by mineral and chemical composition; the texture of the constituent particles; and also by the processes that formed them. These indicators separate rocks into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.\n\nMinerals are natural compounds formed through geological processes. The term "mineral" encompasses not only the material's chemical composition, but also the mineral's structure. Minerals range in composition from pure elements and simple salts to very complex silicates with thousands of known forms (organic compounds are usually excluded)
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Firmly grasp a rock in your hand...and smash it into the "websense." \nThen pick up an enormous rock, smash your genitals, and then your head.
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soil, timber, oil, minerals, coffee, beans, water, Biotic resources, wind, tides and solar radiation, solar power, bauxite, coal, copper, gold, silver, diamonds, iron, precious metals, lead, limestone, nickel, phosphate, oil shale, rock salt, tin, uranium, and molybdenum, forests, fish, herbs.
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Volcanic soil is rich in minerals and, if there is enough rain, can be rich farmland.  Volcanoes created the Hawaiian Islands, so they produce real estate.  Volcanic rocks include pumice, used as an abrasive for swimming pools hand soap, and pre-weathered jeans, and obsidian, used by early humans to make sharp stone tools.  Also zeolites, used for a wide variety of things (see sources).  Some volcanic rocks are broken into pieces and used as a decorative groundcover in landscaping. Eroding volcanoes can produce sand, which has many uses.
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water is a natural resource and we use it foe almost everything, soil is anouther natural resource and u should know wat we use it for, things like that r natural resources
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There are many minerals in the ocean, actually, the mixture is just predominately salt. All the minerals come from..rocks! Well, not just rocks but silt and other things that are basically rock-debris. Rocks, shockingly, have quite a bit of salt in them and the ocean, for billions of years, has been wearing away at the rocks on Earth. How did all that salt get in the rock? Well, they don't really know that part yet.
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Everything that you see that is made of metal comes from rocks.  Bicycles, computers, cars, cutlery - it is all taken out of rocks in the form of "ore minerals", such as bornite, chalcopyrite, argentite, cobaltite, and a million other minerals.  Computers use hundreds of different metals and alloys in their construction, all of which have to be mined out of the ground at some point.  Your computer even has gold and platinum in it.  Copper makes up the wiring in your house.\n\nIt might be easier to think of what DOESN'T come from rocks and minerals.  That would leave us with: water, wood, food, and most clothing (not synthetic clothing, mind you - that comes from oil... sort of).  Everything else is from rocks and minerals - gypsum makes up your "gyp"rock walls in your house - nails (iron) holds the house together.  Mineral aggregates are used to pave roads and sidewalks.