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Which mineral resource is used in chemical industry?

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Mineral resources can be divided into two major categories - Metallic and Nonmetallic. Metallic resources are things like Gold, Silver, Tin, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Nickel, Chromium, and Aluminum. Nonmetallic resources are things like sand, gravel, gypsum, halite, Uranium, dimension stone.
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Carbon feedstocks – oil, gas, coal, renewables, and CO2 – are the base of organic chemistry that creates about 90% of the value of the chemical industry.  Some inorganic feedstocks are regarded as critical: Noble metals, some rare earth elements, indium, lithium, phosphate, etc.

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