Minerals,Italy.

Hey, how are you? Ready to learn about Italian minerals? You might be wondering: Why the heck is this person writing about Italian minerals? Honestly, this is not the most fun thing I could be doing right now, but this was an assignment for me and for my class from science. We were meant to write about the minerals found in our country. You might not know, but I am half Italian so I would like to share the information I found with you.
First of all, you might know about the volcano VESUVIUS, Italy. This Volcano is well known because of its beauty but also for its knowing for killing. Vesuvius destroyed the whole of Pompey and killed about 3,000 people by its first explosion. Eruptions of volcanoes have advantages and disadvantages. Of course the death is a huge disadvantage, but on the other hand, lava, which is the basic element that flows out of the volcano, contains a lot of minerals. Well, the lava from this specific volcano gave the Italians: tenorite, anorite, spinel, nefelina and vesuviana. Vesuviana was first found in Italy, from this volcano. This volcano itself is already a great use to Italy.
    Italy doesn't have that many natural resources, but from what it has, it is able to make business well. Cement is something that provided Italy with a lot of money, it was the 2nd biggest cement producer and deliverer after Germany. Gypsum and natural gases where also well made, and provided enough money for Italy to buy other things they needed. In Italy there is a mine for many minerals and more than one mine of course, plus, there is a mine for each ores, led, silver and zinc. Italy depended on other cities for energy resources because it is not the best land for that.
  In Italy, as in other places, the people get the minerals by mining and use them in many different ways. Exporting is also a big thing that brings Italy money, and not to forget, that Italy is borders by an Ocean which is another place where it gets its minerals from. So as you can see, Italy is not the richest place on Earth, but is surrounded by some very good areas and knows how to manage business.



If you are interested in learning more or checking out the sites I got my information from,here you go:
http://www.italianminerals.com/ITALY/vesuvio/Vesuvio.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/334791/The-Mineral-History-of-Italy