RE: Defence Partnerships13 Sep 2023 15:02
A mineral is a natural substance with distinctive chemical and physical properties, composition, and atomic structure. The definition of an economic mineral is broader, and includes minerals, metals, rocks and hydrocarbons (solid and liquid) that are extracted from the earth by mining, quarrying and pumping.
For information - in line with what Mike says
So in essence copper is an element also a mineral and a metal