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By: Bernicia Kong Cerium

The uses of Cerium are cigarette lighters,as a glass polishing

agent and as a catalyst for self cleaning oven, lighting for studio

Lighting and projector lights. It is a very rare mineral.

https://www.quora.com/Geology-What-is-allanite
https://www.dakotamatrix.com/mineralpedia/5073/allanite-ce
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/allanite

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Emerald-Vicente Zhou
Emerald is very precious, is use To make many kind of jewelry like ring,Necklace and other, one carat can cost More than a diamond. Mineral is really expensive and important.  Emerald is very shiny and it could make a lot of stuff but it takes a long time to produce one emerald.

https://www.minerals.net/mineral/emerald.aspx                                                                                                                               https://geology.com/gemstones/emerald/                                                                                                                                         https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2017-gemnews-new-discovery-emeralds-ethiopia

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Minerals             By: Emily Susanto        Sapphirine is a mineral used for jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets, or other pieces of art.  This beautiful mineral, is extremely rare.   On the Mohs hardness scale it’s rated a 7.5.  It’s a silicate of magnesium and aluminum.

https://www.jtv.com/library/gemopedia/sapphirine

www.gemstonebuzz.com/sapphirine

https://www.mindat.org/min-3531.html

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Minerals
Uses of Minerals:

People use minerals for many things. Most people turn minerals into products, they turn the minerals into the floor that you use at your home, or they turn some minerals(mostly gemstones) into jewelry. But some people sell the minerals for money. Also, people can turn minerals into a building material, like limestone.

Rare Minerals:

Most minerals are common, but a few minerals are rare. A few rare minerals are diamond, gold, panite, and etc. Rare minerals can be found in caves, but they can be on Earth’s surface.

-Sunny Lien

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Minerals

By Paul Bartels

Taafite: Rare minerals: Taaffeite is a very rare mineral and it was named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe who found the first sample of taaffeite, a cut polished gem. Taaffeite is a very rare gemstone, in fact it is one of the rarest in the world.

Taaffeite

Uses of minerals: A mineral such as gold is used for jewelry and arts. Gold is also used for dentistry and medicine. Gold has other  many uses, it is used in electronics, electrical wiring, dentistry, electronics, medicine, radiation shielding, and to color glass

Gold

Sources I used

https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-gold-facts-607641

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Minerals

By Katelyn Aguiniga

Minerals have to be naturally occuring. Minerals are formed by inorganic processes. Minerals can be used for aluminum.

http://scienceviews.com/geology/minerals.html

https://geology.com/minerals/

https://www.britannica.com/science/mineral-chemical-compound

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By:Jasmine Kan      Minerals can be used to many things. But mostly they are used for construction, making polishes, and also to create metals for items such as knives. Here are some uses for metals.

Iron : Iron can be used to make framework

One of the rare minerals are Euclase. Euclase may be used for many things but it as mostly used to healing. It is used to ease aches, pains of arthritis, muscle tension, and to heal minor cuts, scratches, bruises, muscular cramps, inflammation, and swelling. Euclase may also be used to ease constriction of the blood vessels and spasmodic conditions. It may also be used as an antibacterial and antiseptic. https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/mineralsyou/whydo.html                                        https://www.minerals.net/Minerals/A.aspx

https://www.livestrong.com/article/274424-how-are-minerals-used-in-everyday-life/

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Minerals

Directions:Uses of minerals and rare minerals.

BY:MICHAEL DASCA

Uses of minerals

People use minerals for many reasons.Most people would collect minerals for a collection. Others would use it for tools or products. A lot of people would probably sell the minerals. People can also use minerals for building tools or maybe they can build a building that is made of minerals. It’s like a work of art to most people.

Rare minerals

Rare means that it is hard to find. Rare minerals are probably very famous and can also make you rich. Kind of like how people find gold. They make these gold mines. Most minerals are able to be found underground as well.

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Mineral

This is a mineral that is called,”Chalcedony” and are form from, a silica and is a cryptocrystalline. Chalcedony has wide ranges of colors, but most of them are, commonly seen as white or gray, grayish blue or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black.          https://www.minerals.net/mineral/chalcedony.aspx             https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/gemstones/sp14-95/chalcedony.html             -Ada Chang

http://www.quartzpage.de/chalcedony.html

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Minerals  By Paul Bartels

Taafite: Rare minerals: Taaffeite is a very rare mineral and it was named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe who found the first sample of taaffeite, a cut polished gem. Taaffeite is a very rare gemstone, in fact it is one of the rarest in the world.

Taaffeite

Uses of minerals: A mineral such as gold is used for jewelry and arts. Gold is also used for dentistry and medicine. Gold has other  many uses, it is used in electronics, electrical wiring, dentistry, electronics, medicine, radiation shielding, and to color glass

Gold

Sources I used

https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-gold-facts-607641

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Mineral

By:Kevin Pan

This is a quartz mineral and is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth’s continental. Quartz is a hardness of a 7 of the Mohs Scale. Quartz is composed of a silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant. Quartz is in the trigonal crystal system.

Sources: https://geology.com/minerals/mohs-hardness-scale.shtml                                                                                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz                                                                                                                          https://geology.com/minerals/quartz.shtml

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Minerals by Hugo Lim                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             The 3 website that I use:

1)https://www.gemsociety.org/article/painite-jewelry-and-gemstone-information/

2)https://www.gemdat.org/gem-3063.html

3)https://www.miningglobal.com/top-10/photos-top-10-rarest-gems-found-earth

The following mineral you are seeing right now is the world rarest mineral called Painite. According to the Guinness World Record, in 2005 the Panite is the rarest mineral till now!

Minerals had a lot of uses for example copper is for wires and coins. Most people uses it for jewels for different reasons. For example, they use it to look good and look rich.

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Minerals - Kevin Pan                                                                                                                                                          This is a quartz mineral and is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth’s continental. Quartz is a hardness of a 7 of the Mohs Scale. Quartz is composed of a silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant. Quartz is in the trigonal crystal system.                                                                                           Sources: https://geology.com/minerals/mohs-hardness-scale.shtml                                                                                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz                                                                                                                          https://geology.com/minerals/quartz.shtml

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Mineral

By:Kevin Pan

This is a quartz mineral and is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth’s continental. Quartz is a hardness of a 7 of the Mohs Scale. Quartz is composed of a silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant. Quartz is in the trigonal crystal system.

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Rare Minerals

By Hugo Lim

The 3 website that I use:

1)https://www.gemsociety.org/article/painite-jewelry-and-gemstone-information/

2)https://www.gemdat.org/gem-3063.html

3)https://www.miningglobal.com/top-10/photos-top-10-rarest-gems-found-earth

The following mineral you are seeing right now is the world rarest mineral called Painite. According to the Guinness World Record, in 2005 the Painite is the rarest mineral till now!

Minerals had a lot of uses for example copper is for wires and coins. Most people uses it for jewels for different reasons. For example, they use it to look good and look rich.

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Rocks are used in agriculture, science and technology, communications, transportation, construction, medicine, manufacturing and arts. As well as building material we see from buildings around us.               From Carson

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Minerals By:Jasmine Kan
Mineral nutrients for the human body include: iron, calcium, copper, sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium and many others. Most rocks are aggregates of minerals. Here are many uses for minerals. Some of the common ones are clay in bricks and roofing tiles, shale and gypsum in cement, and silica sand in window glass.https://geology.com/minerals/what-is-a-mineral.shtml

https://cosmos-magazine.imgix.net/file/spina/photo/9760/Simonkolleite.jpg?fit=clip&w=835

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Minerals By:Jasmine Kan
Mineral nutrients for the human body include: iron, calcium, copper, sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium and many others. Most rocks are aggregates of minerals. Here are many uses for minerals. Some of the common ones are clay in bricks and roofing tiles, shale and gypsum in cement, and silica sand in window glass.https://geology.com/minerals/what-is-a-mineral.shtml

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Minerals- Kevin Pan

This is a quartz mineral and is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth’s continental. Quartz is a hardness of a 7 of the Mohs Scale. Quartz is composed of a silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant. Quartz is in the trigonal crystal system.

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Minerals         By Paul Bartels

Taaffite: Rare minerals: Taaffite is a very rare mineral and it was named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe who found the first sample of Taaffite, a cut polished gem. Taaffite is a very rare gemstone, in fact it is one of the rarest in the world.

Uses of minerals: A mineral such as gold is used for jewelry and arts. Gold is also used for dentistry and medicine.

Gold

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Mineral

By:Kevin Pan

This is a quartz mineral and is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth’s continental. Quartz is a hardness of a 7 of the Mohs Scale. Quartz is composed of a silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant. Quartz is in the trigonal crystal system.

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MINERAL BY:Ada Chang

This is a mineral that is called,”Chalcedony” and are form from, a silica and is a cryptocrystalline. Chalcedony has wide ranges of colors, but most of them are, commonly seen as white or gray, grayish blue or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black.

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Kevin Pan
This is a quartz mineral and is one of the most abundant minerals in Earth’s continental. Quartz is a hardness of a 7 of the Mohs Scale. Quartz is composed of a silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant. Quartz is in the trigonal crystal system.

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Rhodochrosite                                                                     By: Eiji Deetan

Rhodochrosite is normally used as an ore of manganese but it is very rare in economic quantities. Minerals with a wonderful pink color are normally used for gemstones.They are very rare in well-formed gemstones so they are extremely valuable as mineral specimens.They are only used for jewelry and gemstones.

https://geology.com/minerals/rhodochrosite.shtml https://www.minerals.net/mineral/rhodochrosite.aspxhttps://www.minerals.net/mineral/rhodochrosite.aspx

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Minerals                                                                                          Paul Bartels

Uses of minerals: A mineral such as gold is used for jewelry and arts. Gold is also used for dentistry and medicine.  Taaffite: Rare minerals: Taaffite is a very rare mineral and it was named after its discoverer Richard Taaffite who found the first sample of Taaffite, a cut polished gem. Taaffite is a very rare gemstone, in fact it is one of the rarest in the world.

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Minerals are used for building tiers and clay. All these minerals are today and u have to.

BY JAYDEN

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Minerals

Halite

This here is Halite, known as rock salt. It comes from something called “sodium chloride”.

-Jasmine Padilla ;)

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A picture of my favorite mineral, fluorite.

Minerals are used in jewelry,  steel, walls, concrete, fertilizer,   and  agriculture.  Some rare minerals include liroconite, leadhillite, synchysite,  and carrollite.

- Lauren Young

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Minerals                               By:Dustin yang

There are many uses of minerals in everyday life like clay is use for bricks and roofing tiles, shale and gypsum is used for cement,some minerals are used for jewelry,and etc.There are many rare minerals like zircon, diamond,wakefieldite,parisite,and etc.

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Emma Gluski

Allanite is a very rare Earth mineral. Allanite is used as a source for different kinds of rare Earth metals, and it is also used for types of mineral specimens.

https://minerals.comparenature.com/en/allanite-ce-and-rankinite-facts/comparison-95-1410-6
http://www.galleries.com/Allanite
https://www.livescience.com/37604-lanthanum.html

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MINERALS

By Sean Lin

Minerals are very useful resources that can be used for agriculture, food, packaging, utensils, roofing, framework, cement, glass, plumbing, wiring, tiles, transportation (cars, boats, etc.), and technology. On Earth, there are many minerals, some being rare, and others being common. Some rare minerals include, sylvanite, lemanskitte, androrite, schneiderhonite, carrollite, clinoclase, phosgenite, and paradamite.