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The Mineral Mercury Ben Prickett Hour 7

Reasons for Extraction

Mercury is used in many pesticides

Properties of Mercury

Mercury has a 0 on the Mohs harness scale

Mercury is used in the making of thermometers and barometers.

Mercury is used to make chlorine for pools

Mercury has neither cleavage or fracture because it is a liquid at room temperature.

It is also used to extract gold from mines.

Mercury has a metallic luster.

Land Reclamation and Costs

In the abandoned Mercury mines in Texas they are reclaiming the land by farming over them. Planting permanent grasses and trees. the deep mines will be filled in. The total cost to do this will be 7,582,203 dollars. That is a crazy huge amount of money.

Process of Mining

Mercury has a density of 13.6 g/cm cubed.

Mercury is mined through strip mining and deep mining.

Geographic Indicators

There are many negatives to mining mercury.

1: It strips alot of land to find a very small amount of mercury

2: Mercury is very toxic and if ingested it can kill.

3: If the mercury gets into the environment it can contaminate lakes and the fish then the animals that eat the fish.

4. The vapors that are in the air during its processing can be breathed in and can cause strokes and heart attacks.

Mercury can be found near volcanoes and mountains that have brought it to the surface.

Some Indicators to where it is located is large pockets of cinnabar or quartz. Mercury forms an alloy with cinnabar to make a amalgamate. Another indicator would be to see if the wildlife in the area around where you want to mine have high levels of Mercury in the.

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