Mineral Resources
Almost all Earth materials are used by humans for something. We require metals for making machines, sands and gravels for making roads and buildings, sand for making computer chips, limestone and gypsum for making concrete, clays for making ceramics, gold, silver, copper and aluminum for making electric circuits, and diamonds and corundum (sapphire, ruby, emerald) for abrasives and jewelry.
In this discussion, we hope to answer the following questions:
What constitutes a mineral resource and an ore?
What determines whether or not a mineral sources is economical to exploit?
By what processes do ores form?
How are mineral resources found and exploited?
What happens when a mineral resource become scarce as a result of human consumption?
What are the adverse effects of exploiting mineral resource. Mineral resources can be divided into two major categories - Metallic and Nonmetallic. Metallic resources are things like Gold, Silver, Tin, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Nickel, Chromium, and Aluminum. Nonmetallic resources are things like sand, gravel, gypsum, halite, Uranium, dimension stone.
A mineral resource is a volume of rock enriched in one or more useful materials. In this sense a mineral refers to a useful material, a definition that is different from the way we defined a mineral back in Chapter 5. Here the word mineral can be any substance that comes from the Earth.
Natural borders tend to change due to climate and other causes. Natural borders that are formed around mainly rivers and lakes, to some extent ocean have the largest effects on people. An example of river one is the Natural border of the Rio granda river that borders the states of Texas and Mexico. The change in the Rio granda river caused texas to lose 367 acres of land to Mexico and caused commotion among the US citizens now living in Mexico due to the change of the River. Another example is the flooding of holand in the Netherlands in the past. Due to rising sea levels areas of Holand netherlands are being flooded which effects people and places
I’m assuming you’re asking about the moon, if correct, here is the answer: In bright half , the bright part of the moon increases whereas In dark half , the dark part of moon increases. Bright half starts from a new moon day and ends on a full moon day whereas dark half starts from a full moon day and ends on a new moon day.