How Minerals Affect Our World

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Jennifer Warr and I'm here as an expert of, representing the mineral kingdom in behalf of Expert Village. There are a few important things about crystals in the mineral kingdom. Obviously things like cars, aero planes, come from minerals. They come from steel, iron, copper, silver metals. This is all coming from the earth. What's important is that we look after our own role. What role was playing with the earth and how we influence all of the different industries, the mining industry. So it's important to think about what we're doing when were purchasing a new car for instance. Is that car a brand new car? Did they take all of these minerals from the earth, these crystals from the earth because the crystals are like the veins in our bodies? We are like the earth. Our bodies can be compared to the earth. So when you feel about it, when you think about it. Our bodies like, out veins are like the rivers. The rivers are flowing continually and the parts of our organs, our heart, our lung, there their own mineral. In fact our heart is made up mostly of I believe Manganese which is a calcite, copper which is actually everywhere. We have copper in our Oregon sun stone and that's in magma. So our bodies are like the earth. Our body is the earth. The earth is like our body. The rocks here, this is mostly iron."