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Open pits, quarries, and some coal mines are called this

What is a Surface mine?

This is used to make electronic equipment and aircraft parts

What are metallic minerals?

This is used to make concrete and glass products

What are nonmetallic minerals?

These are formed by changes in pressure, temperature, or chemical makeup

What are metamorphic rocks?

These are large, tear-shaped bodies of magma where many gemstones can form

What are pegmatites?

This is the special property of calcite that causes a double image

What is an optic property?

What is the special property of some minerals to attract iron

What is magnetism?

What is the special property that some minerals show when they come in contact with acids

What is a chemical reaction?

What is the special property of some minerals that can be detected by a Geiger counter

What is radioactivity?

What is the special property that causes some minerals to glow under ultraviolet light

What is fluorescence?

These are naturally formed, inorganic solids with a definite crystalline structure

What is a mineral?

What is the tendency of some minerals to break along smooth, flat surfaces

What is cleavage?

A natural mineral deposit that is large enough and pure enough to be mined for profit

What is ore?

This is the ratio of mass to volume of a substance

What is density?

This is the way a surface reflects light

What is luster?

A mineral’s resistance to being scratched

What is the mineral’s hardness?

The tendency of a mineral to break along a curved surface

What is fracture?

A mineral deposit that is large enough and pure enough to be mined is called this

What is ore?

These are open pit mines and quarry mines

What are surface mines?

This is the name for nonmetallic minerals that are valued for their beauty and rarity rather than their usefulness

What are gemstones?

Other than reclamation what is another way to reduce the effects of mining on the environment

What is recycling mineral?

This is the color of the powder that a mineral leaves on a piece of white, unglazed porcelain

What is the streak?

Silicate and nonsilicate minerals are grouped based on this

What is chemical composition?

A silicate mineral contains this

What is silicon and oxygen?

A class of nonsilicate minerals is this

What are native elements, carbonated, halides, oxides, sulfates or sulfides?