Task 1

Open the link to the METALS MATTER program created by the Minerals Council of Australia and select the Commodity Calculator.

Choose ANY ONE item from this segment that you would like to use in the next few years.This will be the item you will research.

List the resources that are needed to make your chosen item.

Find any ONE useful physical or chemical property FOR EACH material that makes it suitable for the item in question.

Use the Commodity Calculator to find the amount of each resource needed for:

1. just ONE item.
2. to produce one item for each person aged between 10 and 19 in Australia only
3. to produce one item for each person aged between 10 and 39 in the World

 (You can print out these results if you wish)