Dig a little deeper All living things need minerals

We use different things in our daily life madefrom metal. Can you list a number of itemsused in your house made of metals. Where dothese metals come from?You have studied that the earth s crust ismade up of different minerals embedded in therocks. Various metals are extracted from theseminerals after proper are an indispensable part of ourlives. Almost everything we use, from a tiny pinto a towering building or a big ship, all aremade from minerals . The railway lines and thetarmac (paving) of the roads, our implementsand machinery too are made from , buses, trains, aeroplanes aremanufactured from minerals and run onpower resources derived from the earth. Eventhe food that we eat contains minerals . In allstages of development, human beings haveused minerals for their livelihood, decoration,festivities, religious and ceremonial comes to Guwahati with his fatherfrom a remote sees people getting into strangehouse like objects which move along theroad.

from these mines is exported to Japan and South Korea via Vishakhapatnam port. • Ballari-Chitradurga-Chikkamagaluru-Tum aku ru belt in Karnataka has large reserves of iron ore. The Kud remukh mines located in the W ester n Ghats of Kar nataka are a 100 per cent export unit. Kudremukh deposits are known to be one of the largest in the world.

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