Mineral
Crossword Clue and Answers

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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in Evening Standard Quick Crossword.

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Publications

  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Monday, 29 Nov 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Monday, 1 Nov 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Monday, 25 Oct 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 29 Sep 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Thursday, 23 Sep 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Tuesday, 14 Sep 2021
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Tuesday, 17 Aug 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Wednesday, 11 Aug 2021
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Saturday, 7 Aug 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Monday, 26 Jul 2021
  • Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Monday, 19 Jul 2021
  • The Daily Mail Quick - Tuesday, 13 Jul 2021

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ORE
A mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined

SPA
A place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness

4 letters

TALC
Apply talcum powder to (one's body)

OPAL
A translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones

MICA
Any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity

5 letters

BERYL
The chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems

EMERY
A hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)

6 letters

QUARTZ
A hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities

9 letters

INORGANIC
Lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms

11 letters

PITCHBLENDE
A mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore