mineral: any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually ofd efinite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin,as asphalt or coal silicate: Any of numerous compounds containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals; a salt of silicic acid. silicon-oxygen tetrahedron It consists of a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms in the shape of a tetrahedron. crystallization: Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process of formation of solid crystalsprecipitating from a solution, melt or more rarely deposited directly from a gas. hydrothermal solutions:
Hydrothermal mineral deposits are those in which hot water serves as a concentrating, transporting, and depositing agent. They are the most numerous of all classes of deposit. sulfides: a mineral made of silicon as the anion sulfates: a salt of sulfuric acid halides:
A halide is a binary compound, of which one part is a halogenatom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative (or more electropositive) than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, or astatide compound. oxides:
a chemical compound that contains at least one oxygen atom in its chemical formula carbonates:
a carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, CO2−3. Native elements, elements which occur in nature uncombined with other elements
any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually ofd efinite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin,as asphalt or coal
silicate:
Any of numerous compounds containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals; a salt of silicic acid.
silicon-oxygen tetrahedron
It consists of a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms in the shape of a tetrahedron.
crystallization:
Crystallization is the (natural or artificial) process of formation of solid crystals precipitating from a solution, melt or more rarely deposited directly from a gas.
hydrothermal solutions:
Hydrothermal mineral deposits are those in which hot water serves as a concentrating, transporting, and depositing agent. They are the most numerous of all classes of deposit.
sulfides: a mineral made of silicon as the anion
sulfates: a salt of sulfuric acid
halides:
A halide is a binary compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative (or more electropositive) than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, or astatide compound.
oxides:
a chemical compound that contains at least one oxygen atom in its chemical formula
carbonates:
a carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, CO2−3.
Native elements,
elements which occur in nature uncombined with other elements