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This text offers an account of the wide range of mineralogy. The fundamentals, the most frequently used procedures, and experimental techniques are all labelled. Mineralogy is concerned with studying minerals and their physical and chemical properties. A mineral is a naturally occurring, homogeneous solid with a definite chemical composition and a highly ordered atomic structure. Minerals have been an important part of our society since the time of prehistoric man. Early humans carved tools out of minerals such as quartz. Pottery has been made of various clays since ancient times. Sodium chloride, also known as the mineral halite, has been used in food preservation techniques for millions of years. Mining of useful minerals out of ores became widespread hundreds of years ago, a practice still in use today. Modern-day mineralogy has been expanded by advances in other sciences, such as biology and chemistry, to shed even more light on the nature of the materials that form the earth we live on.
