Question

which of these is a mineral resource​

Answer 1

Answer:

question is incomplete.

Answer 2

Explanation:

A mineral is a pure inorganic substance that occurs naturally in the earth’s crust. More than two-thousand minerals have been identified and most of these are inorganic, which are formed by the various combination of elements. However, a small proportion of the earth’s crust contains organic materials, consist of single elements such as gold, silver, diamond, and sulfur.

Categories of Mineral Resources

Mineral resources can be divided into two major categories.

Metallic Mineral Resources

Non-metallic Mineral Resources

Characteristics of Metallic Minerals

Metallic Minerals show a metallic shine in their appearance.

The potential source of the metal that can be got through mining.

Contains metals in their chemical composition.

Metallic minerals contain metal in raw form.

. Characteristics of Nonmetallic Mineral Resources

Minerals appear with a non-metallic shine or lustre

Do not contain extractable metals in their chemical composition

Examples of Minerals

Minerals are compounds naturally produced on Earth. They have a clear structure and chemical composition. There are more than 3000 known minerals. Some, like gold and diamond, is rare and precious, while others, like quartz, are more ordinary.

Minerals are composed of atoms as are all compounds. There are just only a hundred components around us, and they are the fundamental building blocks in everything of us. They can be found in their pure form, or chemically combined with other compound-making elements. A compound is composed of two or more chemically united elements.

Over 99 per cent of the minerals that make up the surface of the Earth consists of only eight elements. Some of such elements are found as complexes in conjunction with other elements. Minerals are naturally occurring elements or compounds in the Earth’s crust. Rocks are minerally shaped mixtures. Much as the building blocks of rocks are elements, so the rocks form the rock building blocks.

The mineral biotite has basal cleavage which means that it has a complete cleavage. The cleavage plane on top of this sample is visible on the smooth, reflective surface. The flat surface at the bottom, in line with the top of the bowl, is similar to the rim and thus reflects the same cleavage axis.

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