$ 0.004 -37.82%

Minerals Coin (MIN) Rank 2820

Market Cap $0.000
Volume 24H 0 MIN
Open 24H $0.007
Low/High $0.004 - $0.007
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Minerals (MIN) is a PoW/PoS X11 based crypto currency. The block time is thirty seconds and the PoW, proof of work, was designed to last for seven days. The coins main premiss was to distribute the currency evenly with 30 million coins in the PoW phase. The difficulty retargets every block and there was no premine.

Mkt.Cap $ 0.00000000 Volume 24H 0.00000000MIN
Market share 0% Total Supply 1,000,000.00MIN
Proof type PoW/PoS Open $ 0.0068
Low $ 0.0039 High $ 0.0073

Uses of minerals


Salt in food

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Prior to the United States minting their own coins, it relied on foreign currency. However, that all changed with the passing of the Coinage Act of 1792, which provided the framework for regulating money produced in the United States, as well as established the United States Mint. This composition was selected because it gave similar mass (now 2.268 grams instead of 2.5 grams) and electrical properties (important in vending machines)—and most importantly, because it contained no precious metal. The same rumor arose after the release of the Sinnock designed Franklin half dollar in April 1948.

The shield is also featured on the walls of the U.S. Capitol Building, whose halls are decorated with frescoes painted in the mid-1800s. As a 2005 law directs, the shield design symbolizes President Abraham Lincoln’s preservation of the United States as a single country. The familiar portrait of Lincoln remains on the front of the coin.

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Minerals & Rocks

Discussions of the safety of sodium hexaferrocyanate in table salt Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Ponds near Maras, Peru, fed from a mineral spring and used for salt production since the time of the Incas. Salt is processed from salt mines, and by the evaporation of seawater (sea salt) and mineral-rich spring water in shallow pools. Its major industrial products are caustic soda and chlorine; salt is used in many industrial processes including the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride, plastics, paper pulp and many other products. Of the annual global production of around two hundred million tonnes of salt, about 6% is used for human consumption.

How do you describe minerals?

The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today's smaller coin is made of copper and zinc. Liberty stayed on the penny for more than 60 years. In 1857, the coin got smaller and the metal composition changed to 88% copper and 12% nickel.

None were used in 1965–67, and Philadelphia did not show a mintmark until 1980 (in 1982, an error left the "P" off a small number of dimes, which are now valuable). In 1909, Abraham Lincoln became the first president featured on our coins in honor of his 100th birthday. The Lincoln penny obverse showed the image of Lincoln designed by Victor David Brenner that is still used today. From 1909 to 1958 the reverse featured two sheaves of wheat. From 1959 to 2008, the reverse was an image of the Lincoln Memorial designed by Frank Gasparro to commemorate Lincoln’s 150th birthday.

The Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 required that the cent's reverse be redesigned in 2009. This resulted in the mintage of four different coins showing scenes from Abraham Lincoln's life in honor of the bicentennial of his birth. After the coin was released, many protested that even the initials were conspicuous and detracted from the design. Because the coin was in great demand, and because to make a change would have required halting production, the decision was made to eliminate the initials entirely. A variety of privately minted tokens bearing Lincoln's image circulated as one-cent pieces during Lincoln's presidency; legitimate coinage had become scarce during the Civil War.

You can identify a rock's type, along with characteristics that contributed to its formation, from its mineral composition. Minerals provide a basic reference for geologists to study the Earth's crust and are separated into categories based on their mineral composition and structure. Extrusive rocks are formed from minerals that crystallized quickly as magma cooled outside Earth's crust, forming smaller crystals. Intrusive rocks cool slowly beneath the crust, allowing for much larger crystal structures to form over time.

Eagerly collected by numismatists today, they are among the most valuable Lincoln cents. Unencapsulated coins are easily identified by wide, square outer rims, quite unlike the rounded edges of business strikes. The Barber dime, as with all previous dimes, featured an image of Liberty on the obverse. She is wearing a Phrygian cap, a laurel wreath with a ribbon, and a headband with the inscription "LIBERTY".

Australian coins have medallic orientation, as do most other Commonwealth coinage, Japanese yen coinage, and euro coinage. This is in contrast to coin orientation, which is used in United States coinage.

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How many MM is a dime?

CoinTrackers.com has estimated the 1944 Wheat Penny value at an average of 15 cents, one in certified mint state (MS+) could be worth $6. (see details)

Minerals: the top 15

How do you count coins?

Halite or table salt is a mineral. Sugar is a crystalline solid but comes from plants, sugar cane or sugar beets. This classifies it as an organic compound and so is not a mineral. Coal on the other hand also comes from plants (organic) and is generally considered a mineral.

Also, from 1935 to 1938, during the Christmas season, Werner made a design depicting Santa Claus. There was also a design featuring the Lord's prayer.

The external shape of a mineral crystal (or its crystal form) is determined largely by its internal atomic structure, which means that this property can be highly diagnostic. Specifically, the form of a crystal is defined by the angular relationships between crystal faces (recall Steno's Law of Interfacial Angles as discussed in our Minerals I module).

In 1857, Congress told the Mint to make the cent smaller and to mix the copper with nickel. The new cents showed a flying eagle on the front and a wreath on the back.

  • An additional design detail that is not readily visible to the naked eye is found on the obverse side of the 1918 onward United States cent.
  • When a mineral is suspended in a solution, it can collect as the water in the solution evaporates into the air.
  • As part of his design for the Jefferson nickel, Felix Schlag chose to depict Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home, the Monticello.
  • The familiar portrait of Lincoln remains on the front of the coin.
  • Rocks and minerals are often combined into one field of science and studied together, but they each have unique characteristics.

Similarly, some 1944 steel cents have been confirmed. From 1944 to 1946, salvaged ammunition shells made their way into the minting process, and it was not uncommon to see coins featuring streaks of brass or having a considerably darker finish than other issues. The one- and two-cent coins were discontinued in 1991 due to the metal exceeding face value and were withdrawn from circulation. As of 1991, both the 1 and 2 cents are now minted as collectors coins.

In the past prices have occasionally been quoted on signage and other materials in terms of dimes, abbreviated as "d" or a lowercase "d" with a slash through it (₫) as with the cent and mill signs. As of 2019, the dime is the only United States coin in general circulation that is not denominated in terms of dollars or cents. The union shield used in the design dates back to the 1780s. This symbol was used widely on coins and medals made during the Civil War, such as the 2-cent coin and the 5-cent “Shield Nickel”.

Its reverse was changed in 1959 from a wheat-stalks design to a design which includes the Lincoln Memorial (to commemorate Lincoln's sesquicentennial) and was replaced again in 2009 with four new designs to commemorate Lincoln's bicentennial. There are more one-cent coins produced than any other denomination, which makes the Lincoln cent a familiar item.

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Uses of minerals in the body:

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Mint adopted the French technique of the Matte Proof, which was thought to highlight the design, while leaving the details of the coin as the designer intended. This was done by a sandblasting of the dies prior to use. When struck by the high pressure hydraulic press of the Philadelphia Mint Medal Room, the result was a semi-rough surface, a gentle luster and strongly defined wide square rims. These coins were produced in very small numbers, and the dies quickly developed small marks, known as diagnostics.

What foods are rich in minerals?

Answer: We must make use of minerals in a planned and sustainable manner. Improved technologies need to be constantly evolved to allow the use of low grade ores at low cost. Recycling of metals, using scrap metals and other substitutes are steps in conserving mineral resources for the future.

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Since 1946 the Roosevelt dime has been minted every year. Through 1955, all three mints, Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco produced circulating coinage; production at San Francisco ended in 1955, resuming in 1968 with proof coinage only. Through 1964 "D" and "S" mintmarks can be found to the left of the torch. From 1968, the mintmarks have appeared above the date.

This module, the second in a series on minerals, describes the physical properties that are commonly used to identify minerals. These include color, crystal form, hardness, density, luster, and cleavage. A composition-based grouping highlights some common mineral associations that allow geologists to make educated guesses about which minerals are present in a rock, even with only a quick glance. By far, the most common minerals are the silicates, which make up 90% of Earth's crust. Of the many hundreds of named silicate minerals, only about eight are common, one of which is quartz.

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When the United States started minting coins, these two coins were among those made with the precious metals silver and gold. Individuals trying to beat the system for profit would file the edges off the coins, to later combine the metal dust to form additional coins. Even though these coins are now made with cheaper metals, the ridged circumferences are still used today.

There are over 4,500 different minerals identified on Earth. Each has a unique combination of crystalline structure and chemical composition.

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After minerals have been extracted from the ground they are converted to a form that is useful to us. This usually involves removing any unwanted impurities and further processing to increase the concentration of the economic mineral. Metallic minerals may be smelted or refined to produce metal close to the mine, or the concentrate may be transported to another site for further processing.

What are the two types of minerals?

Although many people do not think about Ice as a mineral, it is a mineral just as much as Quartz is. Ice is a naturally occurring compound with a defined chemical formula and crystal structure, thus making it a legitimate mineral. Snow crystals cling together to form snowflakes.

However some errors were systemic, and produced a number of coins with exactly the same problem in the same year. These have become recognized varieties that are often extremely valuable and sought after by mainstream collectors.

Rocks and minerals are often combined into one field of science and studied together, but they each have unique characteristics. Minerals are an inorganic substance that occurs naturally in the Earth, and each one has a consistent and individual set of physical properties like its crystalline structure, its level of hardness, its color, and more. Each mineral has a chemical composition that can be expressed by a chemical formula.

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