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Ores are typically easily mined, whereas industrial materials are usually much more difficult to collect and process. Metallic ores are usually formed by igneous and metamorphic processes, whereas industrial materials are not. Ores are used for building and other construction purposes, whereas industrial materials are useful metallic minerals that are mined. Ores are widespread minerals and rocks, whereas industrial materials are usually much rarer, causing their costs to be relatively higher. Ores are useful metallic minerals that are mined, whereas industrial materials are used for building and other construction purposes.
Match the type of igneous or metamorphic process with the correct mineral resource: [Hint]
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the residual melt can become enriched in rare elements, and volatiles can carry them away from the cooling magma late in the process the first crystals to form are absent of important metallic elements, so only the last crystals to form in the center of the chamber are ores heavy minerals crystallize early and tend to settle to the lower portion of the magma chamber light minerals crystallize last, so the heavy minerals are larger crystals
Indicate the appropriate description of the process occurring at each label on the diagram:
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by decomposition of humus and soil gases during intense, tropical weathering as hydrothermal vein deposits in limestone around a granitic batholith as deposits around submarine, hot spring vents by regional metamorphism of organic-rich, black shales
pegmatite deposits after magmatic segregation magmatic segregation causing residual enrichment of magma hydrothermal solutions from heating of water by cooling magma contact metamorphism associated with the cooling of a nearby magma chamber
