Introduction to Minerals

Listed below are the majority of minerals and metals, used in industrial manufacture, to build infrastructure, generate energy, wage war, or as a "store of value".

Most minerals and metals are arranged according to the raw form in which they are extracted. For example, if you need articles on "aluminium", you'll locate them under "bauxite and aluminium." Or, to get information on "titanium", go to "mineral sands." Those hugely important inputs to the building industry - such as limestone, rocks, aggregates and gravels - are listed under "Construction Materials", although marble and gypsum have separate categories.

We've also highlighted two potentially deadly items not usually regarded as deriving from mines: asbestos (a mineral) and arsenic (a metaloid).

Minerals

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Aluminium - see Bauxite
Antimony (40 articles)
Apatite (4 articles)
Arsenic (195 articles)
Asbestos (319 articles)

B

Barium (9 articles)
Basalt (10 articles)
Bauxite (842 articles)
Beryllium (17 articles)
Bismuth (12 articles)
Borates (10 articles)

C

Cadmium (165 articles)
Caesium (14 articles)
Calcium (5 articles)
Cassiterite - see Tin
Cement (232 articles)
Chrome (30 articles)
Chromium /Chromite (127 articles)
Coal (2559 articles)
Cobalt (215 articles)
Coltan (30 articles)
Construction Materials (250 articles)
Copper (2918 articles)

D

Deep Sea Mining (78 articles)
Diamonds (350 articles)

E

Electronic Metals (19 articles)

F

Fluorite (1 articles)

G

Galena (1 articles)
Gems (95 articles)
Germamium (3 articles)
Gold (4345 articles)
Gypsum (14 articles)

H

Helium (12 articles)

I

Indium (12 articles)
Iridium (2 articles)
Iron & Steel (1687 articles)

L

Lead (299 articles)
Limestone - see Construction Materials
Limonite (14 articles)
Lithium (123 articles)

M

Magnesium (11 articles)
Manganese (42 articles)
Marble Quarrying (370 articles)
Mercury (144 articles)
Mica (9 articles)
Mineral Sands (72 articles)
Molybdenum (643 articles)
Monazite (3 articles)

N

Neodymium (1 articles)
Nickel (518 articles)
Niobium (12 articles)

P

Palladium (17 articles)
Phosphate (63 articles)
Platinum (103 articles)
Potassium and Potash (31 articles)
Precious minerals (4 articles)

R

Rare Earth Elements (43 articles)
Rutile - see Mineral Sands

S

Salt (14 articles)
Sand - see Cement
Scandium (8 articles)
Selenium (27 articles)
Silica (21 articles)
Silver (406 articles)
Soda Ash (7 articles)
Steel - see Iron & Steel
Stibnite (1 articles)
Strategic Minerals (9 articles)
Sulphur (21 articles)

T

Talc (5 articles)
Tantalum (15 articles)
Tar Sands (5 articles)
Thallium (5 articles)
Thorium (4 articles)
Tin (142 articles)
Titanium - see Mineral Sands
Tungsten (41 articles)

U

Ulexite (1 articles)
Uranium (959 articles)

V

Vanadium (2 articles)
Vermiculite (19 articles)

Y

Yttrium (1 articles)

Z

Zinc (482 articles)