Metallic Deposits Non Rocks and Minerals Geology

Metallic Deposits

Examples of non-metallic rocks and minerals of economic interest include coal, gemstones, construction aggregate (gravel or riprap), building stone, salt, gypsum and anhydrite, industrial-grade clays, fluorspar, phosphate, nitrate, and barite. Peat moss is included here because it is a fossil resource (i.e., it is mined faster than it is formed) similar in many respects to coal.

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• - Peat is the partially decomposed remains of plants and animals which have accumulated in oxygen poor freshwater environments over the past 11 000-13 000 years. Peat is mined for horticultural purposes, and is also used in distillation, yeast cultivation,
  
• - Photos of sand and gravel pits and stone quarrying.
  
• - A series of images of Scottish agates from the Midland Valley of Scotland, UK with additional material from the Cheviot Hills.
  
• - Provincial government information circular on the Nova Scotia occurrence, mining history, and uses of these minerals.
  
• - Technical and commercial specialist, based in the United Kingdom, specializing in the exploration and evaluation of industrial minerals particularly kaolins and calcium carbonates.
  
• - Europe's largest independently owned kaolin producer, based in Goonvean Cornwall England UK.
  
• - Provincial government information circular.
  
  

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