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

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

                                                                                               - Lauren Young

                                                  Halite

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

-Jasmine Padilla ;)

BY JAYDEN

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. 

                                             

                    

 

     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.

 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

      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.                                            

  

                                                                     

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.

                                                                  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.

            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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                                                                  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.

                                 

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.

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.

                                                                  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                                                                                                                                                                                                   

            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 

                                                                     

Directions:Uses of minerals and rare minerals.

BY:MICHAEL DASCA

                  

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 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.

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

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/

By Katelyn Aguiniga

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

                                          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 

                                                                     

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

       

 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

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