Your destiny is to describe in detail the mining, the process of refining, and the use of a mineral. For example, if you were assigned Iodine you would find several sources around the globe. Discuss how it is mined and what outcome that mining has in the population around the mine, the refining process and what chemicals or machinery is used to make a usable product, and what it is used for.
Your other option is to do a paper about a mining site and the environmental justice around this particular mineral resource.
One such example if I were doing a report on Uranium mining I might look at this site: http://www.sric.org/Churchrock/index.html and describe everything happening in that political, social, and physical environment.
A rough outline should go something like:
1. The mineral:
The mineral itself, the physical structure and if possible the electron diagram. What is interesting or unique about the mineral, and whether it is a liquid, solid, or gas at room temperature. Also, is it liquid, solid, or gas when originally mined.
2. Mining:
a. Where in the world
b. What is the original product
c. Who mines it
d. Any health effects on those people
e. Any effects on the environment
f. How is it refined
g. What chemicals are used in the refining process and what happens to those chemicals after they are used.
3. Products
a. How are they used
b. What country or industry is the biggest consumer.
Conclusion: What you've learned, ways that the process can be improved.
We have not yet agreed as a class on a rubric, however, I hope to use something along the lines of this: Rubric for Paper
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