Hmm...
IDK
PICK ME!!!
Random
IDEK
100
The minerals that make up most of the rocks of Earth’s crust
What is rock forming minerals
100
A system used when ore deposit occurs in veins
What is shaft mining
100
The vast majority of minerals are this
What is compounds
100
a system used to describe and compare the hardness of minerals
What is the Mohs System
100
Some examples are earthy, silky, waxy, metallic, greasy
What is luster
200
A process in which an ore is melted to seperate the useful metal from other elements in the ore
What is smelting
200
Forms minerals when a hot water solution cools
What is crystallization
200
The property that allows minerals to split easily along flat surfaces
What is cleavage
200
There are six different types, and metallic is not one of them
What is crystal system
200
A narrow channel or slab of mineral that is sharply different from the surrounding rock.
What is a vein
300
Color alone cannot be used to identify a mineral because very few always have this
What is a characteristic color
300
The size of a mineral's crystals depends on this
What is rate of cooling
300
Someone who searches for an ore deposit
What is a prospector
300
This is why you add coke to iron ore in a blast furnace
What is seperation of useful minerals from other elements in the ore
300
The mass of the mineral sample per unit volume
What is density
400
If a substance did not arise from materials that were once part of a living thing.
What is inorganic
400
Stainless steel is one example of this
What is a useful alloy
400
What table salt comes from
What is halite
400
This mineral is used in the making of glass
What is quartz
400
A rock that contains a metal or economically useful mineral
What is an ore
500
Two general ways in which minerals form,
What is the crystallization of molten material or crystallization of solutions
500
The hot solution billows out of vents, called chimneys. When the hot solution hits the cold sea,minerals crystallize and settle to the floor
What is formation of minerals on the ocean floor
500
The material, metals, often follow cracks within the rock. Then the metals crystallize.
What is formation of veins of ore
500
Baked coal, or pre-baked, or previously heated coal
What is coke
500
Cleavage breaks easily along flat surfaces and fracture is breaking in an irregular way.
What is the difference between cleavage and fracture
M
e
n
u