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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.
As well as being the main element in organic matter, carbon atoms are the only element in both graphite and diamond. Image credit below. It would be impossible for life on earth to exist without carbon. Carbon is the main component of sugars, proteins, fats, DNA, muscle tissue, pretty much everything in your body. The reason carbon is so special is down to the electron configuration of the individual atoms.