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    This document provides information about minerals, precious minerals, and clay. It defines minerals as naturally occurring inorganic solids with a definite chemical composition and ordered atomic structure. Precious minerals discussed include gold, silver, and platinum, which are rare metals of high economic value. Gold and silver are sometimes found as native metal but also in minerals. Platinum forms from erosion and sediment deposition. The document also describes the atomic structure of clay minerals and their common uses in products like bricks, pots, and filters.

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    GRADE 9B

    INTEGRATED SCIENCE
    MINERALS
    01
    What are
    Minerals
    GROUP MEMBERS
    Emmanuel Sampson

    Kristiano Rambalack

    Marria Cllender

    Hannah Ramoutar

    Satonia Sampson

    Viroshni Mannu

    Leesa Hasnoo
    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    01 02 03
    What are precious Types of Precious
    WHAT ARE MINERALS?
    Minerals Minerals

    04
    Strcutre and uses of
    clay
    What are Minerals!
    A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic solid, with a definite chemical
    composition, and an ordered atomic arrangement.

    ● Minerals are naturally occurring


    They are not made by humans

    ● Minerals are inorganic


    They have never been alive and are not made up from plants or animals

    ● Minerals are solids


    They are not liquids (like water), or gases (like the air around you)
    2
    What are
    Precious
    Minerals
    WHAT ARE PRECIOUS MINERALS
    Precious metals are rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical elements of high economic
    value. Chemically, the precious metals tend to be less reactive than most elements. They
    are usually ductile and have a high lustre

    How precious Minerals are formed:

    Rock is worn down, and fragments of mineral rich water and wind seeps down into the
    cracks and cavities in the Earth's surface, depositing layers of minerals which are then
    compressed over time, forming gemstones

    They are sometimes produced as a by product of minerals from the production of Ores
    03
    Types Of
    Precious
    Minerals
    TYPES OF PRECIOUS MINERALS
    While there are many types of precious minerals the three main types are Gold,
    Silver and Platinum
    GOLD
    Native gold is an element and a mineral.
    It is highly prized by people because of its
    attractive color, its rarity, resistance to
    tarnish, and its many special properties -
    some of which are unique to gold. No
    other element has more uses than gold.

    Gold may occur as deposits called lodes,


    or veins, in fractured rock. It may also
    be dispersed within Earth's crust. Most
    lode deposits form when heated fluids
    circulate through gold-bearing rocks,
    picking up gold and concentrating it in
    new locations in the crust.
    Silver
    Pure silver is nearly white, lustrous, soft, very
    ductile, malleable, it is an excellent conductor of
    heat and electricity. It is not a chemically active
    metal, but it is attacked by nitric acid (forming the
    nitrate) and by hot concentrated sulfuric acid.

    Silver is formed from sulfur compounds within the


    earth where its crust heats up to between 200- and
    400-degrees Fahrenheit. In nature, silver is found
    combined with other metals, or in minerals with silver
    compounds. These minerals typically include sulfides
    like cerussite or galena.
    Platinum
    A very heavy, precious, silver-white metal,
    platinum is soft and ductile and has a high
    melting point and good resistance to corrosion
    and chemical attack.

    Platinum is formed when minerals are eroded


    from their original spot and then carried by
    water somewhere else (this is called stream bed
    mining or alluvial mining). Workers sift through the
    sand or mud looking for gold, diamonds or
    platinum. Nowadays, platinum is more likely to be
    mined as ore from deep underground.
    04
    Structure and
    uses of clay
    structures of clay
    ● The atomic structure of the clay minerals consists of two basic
    units, an octahedral sheet and a tetrahedral sheet. The
    octahedral sheet is comprised of closely packed oxygen's and
    hydroxyls in which aluminum, iron, and magnesium atoms are
    arranged in octahedral coordination.
    USES OF CLAY
    ● Bricks, cooking pots, art
    objects, dishware and even
    musical instruments such as the
    ocarina are all made with clay.
    Clay is also used in many
    industrial processes, such as
    paper making, cement
    production, pottery, and
    chemical filtering.
    ACTIVITY
    ● Group 1 and 2 will form 2 teams Each team will take turns
    answering questions(starting from group 1)If a team fails to answer a
    question correctly, the opposing team has a chance to answer the
    question and win a point The team with the most points win a special
    prize which will be revealed when a team wins
    Sources
    ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral

    ● https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/c/Clay.htm#:~:text=Bricks%2C
    %20cooking%20pots%2C%20art%20objects,%2C%20pottery%2C%20and%20chemi
    cal%20filtering.

    ● https://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Explore/Find+out+about/Rocks/Types+of+minerals

    ● https://www.thoughtco.com/list-of-precious-metals-608467#:~:text=The%20four%20p
    rimary%20precious%20metals,silver%2C%20platinum%2C%20and%20palladium.
    ● https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/minerals.htm#:~:text=Minerals%20are%20form
    ed%20naturally%20by,an%20important%20component%20of%20soils.

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