Problems of Mineral Resources Development

• Lack of finance and investment:Exploration and exploitation of mineral resources is mainly based on capital intensive techniques.Exploration of mineral resources takes more time and incurs considerable expenses.The rate of capital formation of nepal is very less.Many countries and organization in this field is limited.

• Lack of technical knowledge:Exploration of mineral resources is a very technical job.The use of producing equipments is a technical job in nature.To produce it,it needs different manpower.There is no adequate manpower for mineral resource development in nepal.This is why mineral has not got a momentum.

• Limited market:The market for mineral resources is very limited within a country.Due to undevelopment of manufacturing industries.For nepal this is very difficult to complete with the products of foreign countries in terms of price,quantity and quality.
• Defective government:The government has not not adopted any policy on whether to allow private participation or involve foreign for exploration and extraction.Government does not have clear policy relating to exploration ,research,etc.

• Lack of modern equipment and tools:For mineral resources needs heavy equipment and tools.Due to absence of this,have to imported from abroad.This is expensive work for the government of nepal.Thus minerals are still unutilized and are restricted to in paper document.

Properties of Minerals

Minerals are in different shape and form.There are many minerals which we can't recoznize it so here we have physical properties to identify the mineral.Among the properties we will discuss to identify minerals are: crystal habit, cleavage, hardness, magnetismand taste.

Some common crystal habits are:

Individual Crystal

• Cubic-having cube shape
• Octahedral-having octahedrons shape
  
• Tabular-having rectangular shape
• Equant-having equal length
• Acicular-a crystal having long,slender shape
• Prismatic-having shape of prism faces
• Bladed-having shape of wedge or knife bade

so these are the common shapes of crystals which we found in.

Groups of Distinct Crystals

• Dendritic-tree-as growths
• Reticulated-lattice-as groups of slender crystals
• Radiated-radiating groups of crystals
• Fibrous-elongated clusters of fibers
• Botryoidal-globular shapes and having smoothness
• Globular-having spherical groups
• Drusy-having small shape which covers surface
• Stellated-having star-like shape
  
  

so these are the properties of minerals which helps to recoznize the minerals.

Cleavage

Crystals having planes of atoms along with the bonding which is weaker than other planes.if mineral is struck with the hard object,it will break with these planes.This properties of breaking of specific planes is termed as cleavage.
Cleavage always occers along with the planes in the crystal lattice.The cleavage can also defined as from the quality and it is also described in the form names,like if the mineral breaks into rectangular shape it is termed as cubic cleavage,if it breaks into prismatic shapes,it is termed as prismatic cleavage,and if it breaks along basal pinacoids it is termed as pinacoidal cleavage.

Hardness
Hardness is relative scale,to identify a minerals hardness,we must scratch mineral, and we can find that relative mineral is hardness or not.

Colour
Colour is sometimes diagnostic property of a mineral,Some minerals are green in colour.But all minerals doesnot have same colour.

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