Malachite processing

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Humans have been digging up substances for various uses for thousands of years.  These substances are known as resources, and may need no treatment (like coal), only a little cleaning (like gold) or require detailed extracting, processing and separating.  Of all Australian exports, around 35% of exports are minerals, coal and petroleum.

Rocks are made up of chemical substances called minerals. 

Research the following, and write answers to the following questions:

What is a mineral?

What is malachite?

Where does it come from?

How do we mine for it?

What is malachite made of?

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Click on the link below to find some information on malachite.
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Outline the list of materials and step-by-step method required to extract copper from malachite in a laboratory or in a large-scale processing plant. 

The link below shows how copper is further purified after it's been extracted as copper ore from rocks.

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Search Youtube for a variety of clips on copper mining, copper ore processing, malachite mining, purification of copper etc to help your understand the process and scale of copper mining around the world.

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