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| Is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms |
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| How many elements occur naturally in the earths crust? |
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| What is the common mineral and what element does it contain? |
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| How a mineral breaks along a plane |
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| Moh's scale is the softest rocks to the hardest rocks that was measured from 1-10 |
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| What is the hardest rock? |
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| What is the softest rock? |
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| When mineral break irregularly |
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| Powdered color of mineral |
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| Is a process where an ore is melted to separate it from any un wanted materials that remain |
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| What is a "blood diamond?" |
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| It is a diamond that originate from ares controlled by forces of factions that are used for military funds. |
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| In what form are these diamonds sold or traded? |
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| They are sold in rough form. |
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| At on time, what percent of the worlds diamond production was represented by "blood" or conflict diamonds? |
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| Why are these conflict diamonds bad? |
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| They are bad because men, women, and children are being used as slaves in order to mine them. |
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| What was the purpose of the Kimberly Process? |
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| It was a process to stop the trade and to insure non-violence in the conflict diamond trade. |
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| What is the requirement of the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme? |
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| It was that every mine had to be certified. |
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| Why has this scheme not worked as well as they had hoped? |
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| It was not working because of the lack of political will among the states. |
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| What is the problem in Zimbabwe? |
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| The problem is that the mines are operated by military syndicates who force people to mine for the diamonds. |
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