Metals and their Ore Minerals

Metals and their Ore Minerals

Metal

Common Ore Mineral

Aluminum      

Bauxite (hydrated aluminum oxides)

Cobalt        

Colbaltite (cobalt sulpharsenide, 36% Co)

Chromium

Chromite (ferrous chromic oxide, 46% Cr)

Copper

Native Copper
Chalcopyrite (copper iron sulphide, 35% Cu) 
Chalcocite (copper sulphide, 80% Cu)
Bornite (copper iron sulphide, 63% Cu)

Gold

Native Gold

Iron

Hematite (iron oxide, 70% Fe)
Magnetite (iron oxide, 72% Fe)
Siderite (iron carbonate, 48% Fe)

Lead

Galena (lead sulphide, 87% Pb)

Molybdenum            

Molybdenite (molybdenum disulphide, 60% Mo)

Nickel                  

Pentlandite (nickel iron sulphide, 22% Ni)

Silver     

Native Silver

Tin

Cassiterite (tin oxide, 79% Sn)

Titanium

Ilmenite (iron titanium oxide, 32% Ti)

Tungsten

Wolframe (iron magnesium tungstate, 77% WO3)

Uranium                

Pitchblende (uranium oxide, 50-58% U3O8)

Zinc

Sphalerite (zinc sulphide, 67% Zn)

 

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