Most elements {metal, mineral} are shiny, hard, electric-charge conducting, and heat conducting.
Aluminum comes from aluminum oxide in bauxite.
Calcium is from limestone.
Gold is pure in Latin America, California, Australia, Alaska, and South Africa.
Iron is from iron oxides.
Manganese comes from ocean-floor nodules.
Mercury comes from cinnabar.
Coking coal or freezing air frees nitrogen.
Phosphorus comes from calcium phosphates in limestone deposits.
Potassium comes from many rock types. Potassium-40 is radioactive.
Sulfur is half as free sulfur and half as metal sulfides, in Gulf of Mexico, Italy, Japan, and Russia.
Tin comes from cassiterite.
Scheelite is tungsten ore.
Uranium is in Congo, Romania, Canada, and Colorado.
Zinc comes from zinc oxides.
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