This is a raw material (feedstock).
The overwhelming majority of aluminum on earth is mined from a mineral called Bauxite. Once the aluminum is smelted out, it is no longer a mineral - it is an element: Aluminum.
Its considered an ore when it contains enough of a useful substance that it can be sold
Actually, Lithium was discovered as a part of a mineral in Sweden in 1800. This mineral was LiAlSi4O10, which is lithium aluminum silicate. In 1817 Johan August Arfwedson, then working in the laboratory of the chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius, detected the presence of a new element while analyzing this mineral. This element was then named Lithium.
No, a mineral is a hard substance
A mineral is basically a mixture of different substances that consist of rocks (solid form) and some other things. While it is in its other form (liquid) it contains some useful substances such as zinc and etc.
Aluminium is an element and contains no minerals. It is, however, obtained from bauxite.
The overwhelming majority of aluminum on earth is mined from a mineral called Bauxite. Once the aluminum is smelted out, it is no longer a mineral - it is an element: Aluminum.
Aluminum is an element, a metal, etc. Not a mineral
No. A pure substance describes one that contains only one type of element/molecule. Mineral water is a mixture, since it contains many different types of minerals, next to water, and can therefore not be called a "pure" substance.
No. A pure substance describes one that contains only one type of element/molecule. Mineral water is a mixture, since it contains many different types of minerals, next to water, and can therefore not be called a "pure" substance.
Chocolate milk is a mixture, and therefore not an element or a substance (technically). It contains a number of proteins, which are themselves mixtures of complex compounds, and its proteins and other mineral compounds are in a solution of water, another distinct compound or substance.
If a mineral contains more than one element it is called a
aluminum
Sapphire comes from the corundum mineral family, which is an aluminum oxide (Al2O3). Corundum consists of pure aluminum oxide, it also contains trace amounts of other elements such as iron, titanium and chromium.
A silicate is a mineral which contains the element silica.
For example graphite.
Feldspar