This Is Not About Cryptocurrency! Real Mining and Real Minerals - Beauty of Minerals #leavefingerprints

Hello Steem!

In communities like Steem, we can follow everything about cryptocurrency. We are surrounded by terms like coin, money, market, mining, finance, graphs and etc.

But in this post I want to introduce real minerals and mining! I’m really curious about minerals and crystals as a material engineer.

Long ago, the Egyptians built their pyramids with limestone, and today we still use hundred of millions of tonnes of calcium carbonate in the building industry alone.

The "lead" is made from graphite and clay minerals, the brass band is made of copper and zinc, and the paint that colors it contains pigments and fillers made from a variety of minerals. A cell phone is made using dozens of different minerals that are sourced from mines throughout the world.

The cars that we drive, the roads that we travel, the buildings that we live in, and the fertilizers used to produce our food are all made using minerals. In the United States, about three trillion tons of mineral commodities are consumed each year to support the standard of living of 300 million citizens. That is about ten tons of mineral materials consumed for every person, every year.

Mineral also has a nutritional meaning. It is used in reference to the many inorganic chemicals that organisms need to grow, repair tissue, metabolize, and carry out other body processes. Mineral nutrients for the human body include: iron, calcium, copper, sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium and many others.
An archaic use of the word "mineral" comes from the Linnaean taxonomy in which all things can be assigned to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.

Here you can see beauty of minerals...

Choose your mineral and share with me under the post!

1. Sunset Fire Opal
   

2. Luz Opal With Galaxy Inside
   

3. Ocean Inside An Opal
   

4. Lightning Ridge Black Opal
   

5. Opal Fossil
   

6. Bismuth
   

7. Worlds Biggest Amethyst Geode – The ‘empress Of Uruguay’
   

8. Rose Quartz Geode
   

9. Fluorite
   

10. Burmese Tourmaline
    

11. Titanium Quartz
    

12. Scolecite
    

13. Chrysocolla In Malachite
    

14. Watermelon Tourmaline
    

15. Azurite
    

16. Bismuth
    

17. Rhodochrosite
    

18. Uvarovite
    

19. Realgar On Calcite
    

20. Crocoite
    

21. Fluorite-quartz-pyrite Combination
    

22. Cobaltocalcite
    

23. Tourmaline On Quartz With Lepidolite And Cleavelandite
    

24. Rhodochrosite
    

25. Crocoite
    

Sources:

www.minersoc.org
www.geology.com
www.boredpanda.com