Who Owns the Ocenas Minerlas?

In the world there are wealthy countries and less wealthy countries. To mine in the ocean a country needs to be wealthy and have a coast line, countries with no coast line have a harder time mining the oceans minerals. The reason a country has to be wealthy to mine in the ocean is because to mine the oceans minerals  high-tech, complex, and expensive machinery is required. It is the cheapest to mine at the continental shelf because it is shallow and the deeper you mine the more expensive it is because you need bigger, more complex, and high-tech machinery.

                                                                              
In the year of 1944 the world made a treaty called the international seas and they made limits to how much a country could claim. In the treaty it said that no country could have an entire ocean to itself and that they had to share. They said it was an internationals water way. That means that that they are international waters and they belong to every country in the world. Also the little bit of water in between two pieces or areas of land are still counted as international waters, because they are so useful. E.E.Z. which stands for exclusive economic zones are extending the right to get minerals offshore. Also there was a law made that said you could not test nuclear power in international waters. In World War II the continental shelf was used by people as something to use a land grab.
                                                                                              The image below is the Arctic

 There is global warming in the world, the reason we are not sure of. Some people who are greedy with minerals think that as a good thing, but I think of it as a bad thing because it causes animals to die and the pollution in the air also causes animals to suffer and die. There is also 25% untapped oil and natural gas, but however it is underneath the ocean floor. The reason some selfish people think it is good is because then they can have another ocean where they can mine and get minerals from.
                                                                  
                                                                   The image below shows you the location of the Pacific

In the Pacific Ocean we mine there for, mostly, salt because it has a large amount of it and is easy to get. Salt is a very important substance that we use every day in food, preserving things, cleaning, on roadways, and more. Where we get and take the most salt from is Mexico. In the Pacific you can also find Lead, Bromine, and Magnesium. Mining in the Pacific Ocean is very important because we use many minerals that come from the Pacific ocean every day.


                                                                The image below shows you where the Atlantic is located

Some of the most common minerals found in the Atlantic are Calcite, Limestone, and Dolomite. Those are very important minerals to everyday life because we use them in so many things. From all over the world people are fighting for them because they have many multiple values in them. And some examples are that the uses for calcite are medicine, toothpaste, and building materials. There are also more. Limestone is used in the purification of sugar, making paper white, medicine, and is aggregated in concrete, and those are only some of the hundreds of uses it has. 

Because of all these debates you may ask who owns the minerals. Well in my opinion I think that no one owns them. I do have a solution though, for example poor countries can trade with countries who boarded the ocean, and wealthy countries can pay countries who border the ocean to mine there.

To conclude this I think that the minerals belong to everyone, but some boundaries have to be made. I also think that the oceans do not belong to anyone. I hope that after reading this you formed an opinion, changed your opinion, or had more to back up your opinion!

Mining Minerals In California

California has a lot of mining in it. Some minerals that are mined there are Gypsum, mica, and silver. Even though California is called the Golden state and had a gold rush in the mid-eighteen hundreds, does not mean it is rich in Gold today. The reason there is not so much Gold in California now is because there were some extreme environmental flunkies. Some other minerals that are found in California are; Asbestos; Borax; Bromine; Clay; Copper; ; ; Iron Ore; Lead; Lithium Magnesium; Marble; Mercury; Molybdenum; Natural Gas; Petroleum; Platinum; Potash; Rare Earths; Salt; Sand & Gravel (construction);  Stone (crushed); Talc; Tungsten; and Zinc. Those are some of the, but the most common ones are milky quartz, sulfur, talc, magnetite, actinolite, mica.In my opinion I think that California is rich in minerals. Also Since it is bordering the Pacific Ocean, it has access to mining the oceans minerals. I personally also think that California in very lucky to be bordering the Pacific Ocean because it can earn a lot of money from it. In conclusion I have decided that California is very rich in mining.

Earths Inner Secrest Web

This is my web on the Earths inner secrets and I used bubblus.com for making this web. I have used notes in my notebook for all this information! In this web I talked about rocks and we put in everything that we learned in this unit.

Notes Reflection

In class we were assigned to take notes on rocks and minerals. We had to say how they form, what types of rocks are there (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary), the most precious mineral, three rock or minerals and give some interesting facts about them, and so on. What I think that the most interesting thing that I learned was about the mineral and most precious metal, rhodium. I learned that it costs about $10,000 per ounce! that is less than a pound! Also it goes from 5-25 times more expensive and costly than gold! Rhodium is very shiny and they use it on diamonds to make them look bigger, it has this effect because it is very shiny and that makes it hard to see where the diamond ends and the metal begins. Also it was discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1803. I also found out about how to identify a mineral, it has to be solid, naturally occurring, inorganic, and has to have a crystalline structure. I also learned that igneous rocks and hardened lava and that sedimentary rocks form from weathering and the remains of other rocks. Also metamorphic rock is altered under heat and pressure and there is more heat and pressure the closer you get to the core and that is usually where they form. Also diamonds form under ground because they need heat and pressure to form and that is why they cost so much, is because they have to dig deep to find them. The most precious mineral is carbon in diamond form. Diamonds also conduct heat really well! Also diamonds, they have the highest melting point it is 3550 degrease Celsius! I took many more notes, these are just some




-Mrs. M if your reading this I just want to let you know that when doing this I left my notebook at school , this is all based on what I remember!!!

Volcano Project Reflection

At school we had a volcano project where we had to study a specific volcano and we also had partners, my partners were Mira and Maryam. I think that we did pretty well, we had a good video with many interesting facts about Mt. Vesuvius. I think that our presentation was not missing anything, except maybe we could have made it a little more serious than funny. I think that for our grade that we should get a 5/6 because I think that we do not deserve a 6 because our actual talking par6t in front of the class rather than the video was a little but unrehearsed. What I learned about volcanoes is that there are different types and that Mt. St. Helen is not in Europe, but in the state Washington. The affect people who live near them because usually volcanoes bring good tourism and also fertile soil around volcanoes. They affect the world because when a volcano erupts there is ash in the air and then people cqn not fly there or fly through it so then people can not travel through that rout.

Modeling Mantle Convection Currents

In class we did a lab and this lab is call Modeling Mantle Convection Currents. What we had to do in the lab was take hot water and put it in a small glass and then but it in a bucket of cold water there is food coloring in the hot water then you poke holes to see what happens. We also had to add small little paper holes. My hypothesis was that the food coloring would just spread around and then what actually did happen was the that the food coloring spread out and it sort of attached to the paper holes and acted like tectonic plates!