Download Uses of Rocks and Minerals Scavenger Hunt

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My Rocks and Minerals
Scavenger Hunt
Object
Rock/Mineral
Cutlery (forks, knives,
spoons, etc.)
Crockery (mugs, plates,
bowls)
Drinking Glasses
Tin cans
Iron and chromium are used to form stainless
steel.
Table salt
Cement
Nails and screws
Electrical Wire
Windows
Batteries
House Numbers
Flower pots
Tooth paste
Makeup
Kaolinite is used to make clay which forms
crockery.
Quartz is a mineral used to make glass.
Bauxite is used to make aluminum cans for
pop or soup.
Halite is the mineral name for salt we use to
season our food.
Limestone and gypsum are used to create
cement.
Goethite and magnetite are minerals that
contain a lot of iron and are used to make
steel.
Steel nails are coated in metals like zinc to
stop them rusting. Zinc comes from the
mineral sphalerite.
Copper comes from minerals like bornite and
chalcopyrite and it isis also used for electrical
wiring.
Quartz is used to make glass. It is melted
down, and mixed with other ingredients to
produce glass of many different sizes, shapes
and colours.
Batteries can be made of graphite, galena
and sphalerite.
Many house numbers are made from metal.
The ones in the picture are coated in a metal
called chromium that comes from a mineral
called chromite.
Illite is a clay mineral used to make ceramic
pots. The mineral vermiculite is used as an
ingredient in potting mix to improve drainage.
The fluoride in toothpastes is a chemical
made from the mineral fluorite.
Talc is used as a base for powders and other
types of cosmetic. Another mineral called
Checklist;
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Watches and Jewelry
Computer
Bricks
Toilet
mica is ground up to add glitter to lipsticks
and nail varnish.
Gold and silver are used a lot in jewelry.
Opals, sapphires, rubies, emeralds and
diamonds are precious and valuable
minerals.
Modern computers rely on the silicon chip to
process information. The mineral quartz
contains silicon, and is of great importance in
electronics.
Kaolinite is used to form bricks.
Feldspar is used to create porcelain which is
often used to make toilets.
(Extra: Can you think of anything else in your house or yard made from rocks and minerals?)