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Among minerals of economic importance, carbon minerals hold the unique position of being at the same time of the most common and the most rare occurrence.
Minerals that are not pure elements are made of compounds. For example, the mineral quartz is made of the compound silicon dioxide, or SiO 2. This compound has one atom of the element silicon for every two atoms of the element oxygen.When a mineral has a different chemical formula, it is a different mineral.or example, the mineral hematite has two iron atoms for every three oxygen atoms, while the mineral magnetite has three iron atoms for every four oxygen atoms. Many minerals contain more complex chemical compounds that are made of several elements.