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| A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms |
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| How many elements occur naturally in the Earth's crust? |
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| What is the most common mineral? |
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| What does silicates contain? |
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| What is mineral appearance? |
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| What is the scale that measures hardness? |
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| What is the hardest mineral in mohs scale? |
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| What is the softest mineral in mohs scale? |
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| Measures hardness of a rock from 1-10 |
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| one of the seven properties of minerals |
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| How a mineral breaks along a plane |
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| Mineral breaks irregularly. |
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| What two characteristics make a mineral a gem? |
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| Deposit in which a mineral exists in a large enough amounts to be mined at a profit |
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| Give three examples of ore |
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Bauxite-aluminum ore
Magnetite-iron ore
Hermatite- iron ore |
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| Smelting is when aluminum oxide powder is converted to molten aluminum |
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| What is a ''blood diamond?'' |
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| Diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments and are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments. |
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| In what form are these diamonds sold or traded? |
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| Rough form meaning they have recently been extracted and not yet cut. |
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| At one time, what percent of the world's diamond production was represented by blood or conflict diamonds? |
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| Why are these conflict diamonds bad? |
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| They are illegally traded to fund conflict in war-torn areas and men, women, and children are used as slaves to extract diamonds. |
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| What was the purpose of the Kimberley process? |
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| To discuss ways to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence. |
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| What is the requirement of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme? |
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| Certify that all rough diamond exports are produced through legitimate mining and sales activities and are ''conflict-free.'' |
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| Why has this scheme not worked as well as they had hoped? |
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| Because of a lack of political will among member states. |
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| What is the problem in Zimbabwe? |
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| They are operated by military-run syndicates who beat or kill miners who don't mine for them or pay bribes. |
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