Friday, December 5, 2014

Resources around the world

Post one mineral resource and where in the world it is most likely to be found. All post should be original and please cite your source. 




76 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gold is a nice mineral resource and is mostly found in Witwatersrand Basin (Johannesburg, South Africa).

Braedon M said...
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Xx_Aaron_Peter_Mills_xX said...

Potassium is a mineral resource, and can be found anywhere in bananas! =)

Maddi T. said...
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Olivia M said...

Cobalt is found in Africa and it is a mineral resource.

owen said...
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camden taylor said...
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dominic l said...

Titanium is one mineral resource and I don't now where is is.

Kristina Wood :) said...

One Mineral resource is selenium which is found impurely in metal sulfide ores, where it partially replaces the sulfur. Commercially, selenium is produced as a byproduct in the refining of these ores, most often during copper production.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium

camden taylor said...

Silver is a great mineral resource.It is found in the ground.

Braedon M said...
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Dillon said...

One mineral is a ruby.

Nick C said...
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Maddi T. said...

The closest place to here that has Iron is Connecticut.
Here's the website I used to find out where iron is:
http://www.cleankeeping.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/map-of-iron-ore.jpg

Alexisb said...

Oxygen is the most common component of the Earth's crust (46.6% by mass), the second most common component of the Earth as a whole (28.2% by mass), and the second most common component of the Earth's atmosphere (20.947% by volume). Most of the oxygen is bonded to other elements.

camden taylor said...

everywere

Dillon said...

It is in Upper Myanmar,Burma.

Xx_Aaron_Peter_Mills_xX said...

Diamonds are a great mineral resource, and can be found underground almost anywhere in the world.

Matthew b said...
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dominic l said...

Titanium was discovered in Australia.

Chloe O. said...

Arsenopyrite is found in Portugal.

Anonymous said...

Russia

Xx_Aaron_Peter_Mills_xX said...

Diamonds are a great mineral resource, and the most diamonds can be found underground in Russia.

Anonymous said...

A mineral is sulfur, and sulfur can be found anywhere near volcanoes, or areas with volcanic action. Hot springs also hold sulfur. Because sulfur is found near these places, you can find sulfur all over the world! Sulfur is also made inside of massive stars. Because sulfur is found almost everywhere, it is the 10th most widespread mineral in the universe.

Nick said...

A mineral is a naturally occurring substance that is solid and inorganic representable by a chemical formula, usually abiogenic, and has an ordered atomic structure. It is different from a rock, which can be an aggregate of minerals or non-minerals and does not have a specific chemical composition.

matthew said...

Amethyst and it is found in Brazil,Sri Lanka,Siberia.

Nick C said...

Newberyite is located in Australia

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Tim D said...

Cobalt is found in Africa and it is a mineral resource.

Anonymous said...

Aluminum is found in Jamaica, Guinea, Brazil, Guyana, etc.

Anonymous said...

Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. The worldwide production of uranium in 2012 amounted to 58,394 tonnes. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia are the top three producers and together account for 64% of world uranium production.

Google.com

Jacob Varney said...
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Josh Y said...

Molybdenum

Used in alloy steels to make automotive parts, construction equipment, gas transmission pipes; stainless steels; tool steels; cast irons; super alloys; and chemicals and lubricants. As a pure metal, molybdenum is used because of its high melting temperatures (4,730 F) as filament supports in light bulbs, metalworking dies and furnace parts. Major producers are China, the United States, Chile and Peru. The U.S. was not import reliant in 2012.

http://www.nma.org/index.php/minerals-publications/40-common-minerals-and-their-uses

emily b said...

Micas commonly occur as flakes, scales or shreds. Ground mica is used in paints, as joint cement, as a dusting agent, in oil well-drilling muds; and in plastics, roofing, rubber and welding rods. Sheet mica is fabricated into parts for electronic and electronic equipment. China and Russia are leading producers. The U.S. was 100 percent import reliant in 2012
http://www.nma.org/index.php/minerals-publications/40-common-minerals-and-their-uses

Cameron M. said...

One mineral resource is copper it is used to build buildings and much more, the largest mine is found in Utah but they can also be found in Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico and Montana.

(http://www.nma.org/index.php/minerals-publications/40-common-minerals-and-their-uses)

Brooke Carman said...

Arsenic can be found found in Siberia, Germany, France, Italy, Romania and in the USA. Most arsenic is found in conjuction with sulfur in minerals such as arsenopyrite (AsFeS), realgar, orpiment and enargite. Non is mined as such because it is produced as a by-product of refining the ores of other metals, such as copper and lead. World production of arsenic, in the form of its oxide, is around 50.000 tonnes per year, far in excess of that required by industry. China is the chief exporting country, followed by Chile and Mexico. World resources of arsenic in copper and lead ores exceed 10 million tonnes.

From: http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/as.htm

haley marsico said...

Amber, it is found in every where but is more common in Mexico and Europe.

Alicia said...

Lead is a mineral recourse that is most often found in china.

Kiara M. said...

Nickeline:
Named after the German word kupfernickel, literally “copper nickel,” but used to refer to “Devil’s copper” in allusion to its coppery appearance yet yielding no copper. Nickeline can be found in nickel-copper ores from high-temperature hydrothermal veins as well as massive and disseminated in peridotite and norite. Somewhat common, Nickeline can be found in localities in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, the United States, Canada, Bolivia, Morocco, Iran, and Vietnam among many others.

http://www.dakotamatrix.com/mineralpedia/7713/nickeline

JaKoB p said...

Uraniumis a mineral that you can use for tables and its letter is u, Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-white metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons.

JaKoB p said...

Sliver mines and In Europe,South Amercia

Brooke D said...

Cobalt is found in Africa.

Nadia McElroy said...
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Jake Esty said...

Plutonium cannot be found naturally in the Earth but can only be found in trace quantities.


http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/nuclear-fuel-cycle/fuel-recycling/plutonium/

Anthony B said...

Mercury can be found in Spain and Italy, which produce about half of the worlds supply of mercury.

Isaiah w said...

Chromite is found in South Africa.

Dakota Sanborn said...
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Hannah M said...
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Lewin P said...

Magnesium is an Alkaline earth metal, it is mostly found in China.

Dakota Sanborn said...

Diamond can be found in Arkansas

Hannah M said...

Zinc mines can be found in Australia.

Ian R. said...

Tellurium is found in Russia.

Leah LaFrance said...

Halite is a common mineral to be found near salty lakes in Cuba or Haiti.

Megan.A said...

Potash-The leading producers are Canada, Russia and Belarus.

Anonymous said...

Astitine can be found in the Earth's crust.

Ryan S. said...
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Nadia McElroy said...

Quarts can be found in earths crust.

Camden.S said...

quartz, its found in the us and most of canada.

Camden s said...

Quartz is found in the U.S.A.


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ANA IS AWESOME said...

Zinc is found in the U.S.A.
http://www.nma.org/index.php/minerals-publications/40-common-minerals-and-their-uses

Anonymous said...

Uranium and can be found in Canada.

Tim N said...

Black matter outerspace.

Cole S said...

coal

Nicole Printy said...

You can find opal in Australia.

Anonymous said...

http://www.nma.org/index.php/minerals-publications/40-common-minerals-and-their-uses
Iron ore is found in the u.s.a

Jack B said...

Stonium is found in Washington.

David Ross said...

Barium is found in water in the ground.

kobe d said...

feldspars

Emily Palmer :) said...

In Falun, Dalarna and Sweden you can find Albite!

Colby P said...

Copper

Used in building construction, electric and electronic products (cables and wires, switches, plumbing, heating); transportation equipment; roofing; chemical and pharmaceutical machinery; and alloys (brass, bronze and beryllium alloyed with copper are particularly vibration resistant); alloy castings; electroplated protective coatings and undercoats for nickel, chromium, zinc, etc. More recently copper is being used in medical equipment due to its anti-microbial properties. The United States has mines in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada and Montana. Leading producers are Chile, Peru, China, United States and Australia. The U.S. was 35 percent import reliant in 2012.

zeke sturgeon said...

Eribiom Is found in the swedish vilage of Qutema.

kobe d said...

feldspars can be found in chili

Will H said...

indium

Kassidy D said...

platina Used by the pre-Columbian Indians of South America

Ethan.S said...

Limestones formed this way are chemical sedimentary rocks. They are thought to be less abundant than biological limestones. Today Earth has many limestone-forming environments. Most of them are found in shallow water areas between 30 degrees north latitude and 30 degrees south latitude. from google

Lauren M said...

Amethyst: Amethyst can be found near the Greek parts of the world. It is formed by quartz.