User:Biroopaksha

Minerals are the things which satisfy five properties. Such as they are naturally occurred homogeneous solids, means made up of one type of things,have a definite chemical composition,definite atomic structure and the last one is they are inorganic substances.But there are many substances which do not have these properties are sometimes considered as minerals.Good examples are mercury, calcite etc.

Simply saying minerals are the combinationof elements. And the combination of more than one mineral is called as a rock.