Compile the use of Rock and Minerals in your own words.
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Well - without minerals and rocks -
How would you live? WHERE would you live? Every single item going into a house nowadays is a product of mining rocks, minerals or petroleum. You could, of course, live in a cave - which is in rock. So there you are, using rocks anyway.
Would you brush your teeth? Toothpaste is made with certain minerals - several, in fact.
How would you travel? If you move in any way past your own feet, you are using minerals to do so - roads are paved with asphalt - a petroleum product. Your bicycle or your car is full of metals (mining), plastic (petroleum) and the car, at least, usually burns gasoline in order to move (petroleum products again).
Window glass? Product of mining.
Plates and dishes? If they are stoneware or china - products of mining.
If they are plastic - products of oil production (another sort of mining).
How do you heat your house?
Gas? mined
Oil? mined
Coal? mined
Electricity? the hydroelectric dams run water through turbines - built with concrete (mined) and metals (mined). The electricity reaches your house through power lines (metal - mined) and your home is wired (mined).
Do you have a cell phone? full of metals and plastics and glass - all mining products.
Do you have a computer? same as the phone.
Do you eat? The soil is produced by rocks weathered, along with organic material from plants. Plants need rocks to survive. So do you.
Do you buy food from a store? The store is built of rocks and minerals. The plants and foods arrived at the store on a truck, made of metals and minerals and mineral products. It arrived on a road paved with mineral products.
Cement and concrete are rock products. The sidewalk, the driveway, the parking lot and a lot of buildings are made of those. Bigger buildings have steel frames or supports - all those are products of rocks and minerals.
Even if you live in the woods and wear wool clothes you weave on your own, you are at some point encountering something that was mined - unless you shear your own sheep with a sharp rock.
By the way, gathering up the proper sort of rock to make a sharp point is ‘mining’. The earliest ‘miners’ were hunter-gatherer proto-humans, making knives and spear points out of a particular kind of rock: flint, or chert, or obsidian. Locating, accessing and using a particular kind of rock or mineral for human purposes is ‘mining’.
Also, salt is a necessity in the human diet. Your body needs it to survive. Your body cannot manufacture it.
Salt is a rock.