What is another, more practical classification system for minerals?
minerals containing other metallic elements seldom if ever alloyed with iron, such as aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, zinc. The metallic minerals are mined for the purpose of extracting specific metallic elements from them. Very often they occur in mineral associations which make extraction of several elements possible. For example, different types of copper deposits may also contain gold, silver, molybdenum, cobalt, zinc, etc. Copper itself is sometimes a byproduct of nickel mining.
the term used in the mining industry for minerals that contain iron or other metallic elements which are added to iron to make a variety of steel alloys. The ferrous metals include chromium, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, silicon, titanium, tungsten, vanadium. Many of these elements have other important uses.
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