Metallic minerals –
- Iron ore, manganese, tungsten, copper, lead, zinc, bauxite, gold,l silver,
tin, Limonite etc come under it. - Metallic minerals are divided into two parts - ferrous minerals, and non-
ferrous minerals, Iron ore, manganese, chromium, nickel, tungsten,
cobalt, etc are ferrous metal because some part of iron is found in them. - Copper, aluminium, tin, lead, gold, silver, platinum, zine etc are non-
ferrous metals.
Non-metallic minerals –
- Mica, asbestos, pyrite, slat, sulphur, diamond,marble, lime-stone gypsum,
nitrate, granite etc come under it.