1. Using Mineral Resources

2.  Minerals are the source of gemstones, metals, and a variety of materials used to make many products

3. Food

4. Makeup

5. Vitamins

6. Gemstones

7. Gemstones – hard, colorful, usually rare, minerals that have a brilliant or glassy luster. –Once a gemstone is cut and polished = GEM –Jewelry –Decoration …but also –Mechanical parts for grinding/polishing

10. Metals Some minerals are the sources for aluminum, iron, copper, or silver –Tools –Machinery –Cars –Light bulb filaments –Aluminum foil –Building steel …the list is endless

12. Metals are typically not as hard as gemstones Metals can be… –Stretched into wire –Flattened into sheets –Hammered –Molded

16. Other important mineral uses… Medicine Food Fertilizer Building materials Optical instruments What optical instrument do scientists use all the time…?

17. Quartz  used in making glass (for electronic equipment, glassware or watches) Gypsum  used to make wallboard, cement, stucco Talc  talcum powder

18. Ore – a rock that contains a metal or other useful mineral that can be mined and sold at a profit.

19. Prospecting – A prospector searches (prospects) for an ore deposit. –Geologists are ore prospectors

20. Three Mine Types: Strip Open pit Shaft

21. Strip Mines

22. Open Pit Mines

23. Shaft Mining