The difference between metallic and nonmetallic minerals
Materials are divided into metal materials, organic materials, inorganic non-metallic materials and composite materials. The minerals are divided into three categories: metallic minerals, non metallic minerals and fuel minerals. China powder technology network "mineral materials characteristics, classification and application", you can learn more about non-metallic minerals, and I hope to help you.A metal mineral is a mineral that uses smelting to extract its metal elements for final use, such as aluminum minerals, which are extracted and used in the smelting process.Most non-metallic minerals are minerals that directly utilize the inherent physical and chemical properties of their natural mineral materials, such as kaolin and quartz. These are minerals directly used for material applications.
Metal ore: generally refers to the smelting from which metals can be extracted from minerals. Such as ferrous metal minerals: iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium, etc., is used as raw material of iron and steel industry. Non-ferrous metal minerals include: copper, tin, zinc, nickel, cobalt, tungsten, molybdenum, mercury and so on. Precious metals include platinum, rhodium, gold, silver and so on. Light metal minerals include: aluminum, magnesium and so on. Rare metal minerals include: lithium, beryllium, rare earth and so on.
Non metallic minerals: non metallic minerals are of 91 kinds, mainly for diamond, graphite, natural sulfur, pyrite, quartz, corundum, kyanite, sillimanite, andalusite, wollastonite, talc, asbestos, sodium nitrate, blue asbestos, mica, feldspar, garnet, pyrophyllite, tremolite, vermiculite, Tou Huishi, zeolite, alunite, Glauber's salt, gypsum, barite, witherite, trona, calcite, magnesite, calcite, fluorite, precious stones, jade, agate, chalk, limestone, dolomite, quartzite, sandstone, natural quartz sand, quartz, kaolin, diatomite, shale, clay, refractory clay ceramic, attapulgite, sepiolite, illite, rectorite, bentonite, marble, granite, gabbro, salt, potassium salt, magnesium salt, iodine, bromine, arsenic, boron, phosphorus etc.
