Minerals for Clean Energy
Mankind has used minerals and metals for centuries and they continue to be the building blocks of civilization. Generally, people don't think about the ingredients of everything they use, such as; toothpaste, makeup, cell phones, automobiles, the home you live in - minerals are in everything we use. As innovation and technology continues to move forward, so do new and novel ways to use minerals. Here are a few of the important minerals used in everyday life.
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- Chief ore of aluminum. It is massive, earthy; occurs as weathered surface deposits after prolonged leaching of silica from aluminous rocks
- Used in automotive, electrical, and hardware industries. A bluish-white, lustrous metal.
- A white metallic element that is very ductile and malleable.
- Used as a component of glasses, glazes, and enamels to enhance colorants. Potassium carbonate, K2CO3
- Its alloys have unusual magnetic strength and are used for high-speed heavy-duty, high-temperature cutting tools, in jet turbines.
- commonly alloyed with silver or copper. metallic yellow; soft and malleable.
- Its alloy, brass and bronze. A reddish metallic element that takes on a bright metallic luster and is malleable, ductile, and a good conductor.
- The lightest of all metals. Does not occur free in nature, is found combined in small amounts in igneous rocks and waters of many mineral springs.
- It is corrosion resistant. And, it is malleable; ductile; metallic.
- A silvery-white, very hard, metallic element. Used for electrodes in electrically heated glass furnaces, in nuclear energy applications.
- Ferruginous rock containing one or more minerals from which metallic iron may be profitably extracted.
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