Chapter 1 Vocab
Those minerals that are more uncommon, generally more valuable, and often harder to gather because of the process involved.
What are rare minerals
Containing no plant or animal material.
What is inorganic?
The largest salt mine in the United States is located here.
What is New York?
The number of minerals estimated to be in the world.
What is 5,000?
The kind of rock Michelangelo used to sculpt his figure of Moses.
What is marble?
A native element (or mineral) you pick up that looks like a rock, but is actually a mineral composed mostly of a metal.
What is a native mineral?
Objects that contain two or more parts.
What are compounds?
The largest salt mine in the world is located here.
What is Ontario, Canada?
The seven minerals we benefit from in a typical morning.
What are salt, iron, chromium, quartz, graphite, gypsum, and clay?
The Statue of Liberty which is covered in this mineral.
What is the gift given to the United States by France that is completely covered in copper?
The reaction that occurs when two or more chemicals are combined.
What is chemical interactions?
Spherical and hollow stones that contain quartz crystals inside them.
What are geodes?
Workers for this kind of mining are exposed to salty brine with little protective gear and very harsh weather conditions which take a toll on their health.
What is solution mining?
The three types of rocks and when they were formed.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary formed during the Creation week and the Flood year?
Geodes are formed in these rocks.
What are sedimentary and volcanic rock?
This involves drilling shafts into the earth where salt deposits are found, crushing the salt, and bringing it to the surface, usually to be used as rock salt.
What is deep-shaft mining?
Something that contains copper is the monovalent state.
What is Cuprous?
They are Spraggers, Nippers, and Mule Drivers.
What are breaker boys?
These kinds of minerals are used to create lasting color in paints for artwork.
What are red and brown clay, as well as greens from malachite, blues from azurite, and yellows from fool's gold.
Exodus 28:15 say amethyst was used for this.
What is one of the gemstones on the 'breastplate of justice' part of the ephod that Aaron wore as the high priest?
In this method where most table salt is made salt is gathered from salt beds and where water is injected into the mix to remove the salt. This brine is then evaporated in salt pans at a processing plant.
What is solution mining?
Determines the number of atoms that will unite in a chemical reaction.
What is valence?
The largest deposits of amethyst are found here.
What are Southern Brazil and Uruguay?
These are the kinds of expenses that go into operating a mineral mine. (name 3)
What are equipment, the land rights, environmental regulations, trained personnel, transportation, and time of processing?
Geodes are formed by this process.
What is gas bubbles trapped inside the rock cause round or sphere-shaped oddities to form which water and minerals pass through and the rock exterior hardens and crystals form on the inside?