Minerals

Minerals

Uses for common minerals 

According to scienceviews.com, here are some uses for common minerals:

• Copper: electric cable and wires, switches, industrial machinery and equipment, transportation; consumer and general products, coins, and jewelry. 

•  Limestone: aggregate, building stone, cement, and lime and in fluxes, glass, refractories, fillers, abrasives, soil conditioners, and a host of chemical processes.

• Quartz: pressure gauges, oscillators, resonators, and wave stabilizers. Quartz is also used in the manufacture of glass, paints, abrasives, refractories, and precision instruments.

   Here are pictures of these minerals:


                      Copper:

                     Limestone:

                     

                   Quartz:

               Here are some pictures of when I went to Falls Mill:

                

Sifting for minerals in a stream at Falls Mill

These are the minerals I got when I was sifting in the stream.