Smart Phones: Miniature mineral depositS (with an uppercase S!)
This exhibit is a wonderful example of how complicated our high technology devices are, and how a wide variety of materials are required to arrive at our 'end product'. In this case, the example is a smartphone! Notably, each one of the metal components that goes into this smartphone must come from its own specific ore deposit, meaning that to produce such a device requires at least 15 separate operating mines!
Tips for zooming: your mouse pointer must be over the image to make controls visible. See the little "?" button for a bit of help.
- Alt-click to zoom in 100% and alt-double-click to zoom fully out.
- The "Enter full view" buttons pops zooming image out to full-screen. ESC to return.
