Black metals include: iron, manganese, chromium, vanadium, titanium.
Non-ferrous metals include: copper, lead, zinc, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, bismuth, mercury, antimony.
Light metal minerals include: aluminum, magnesium.
Precious metal minerals include: gold, silver, platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium).
Rare and rare earth metal minerals include: tantalum, niobium, beryllium, lithium, zirconium, cesium, rubidium, strontium, the light rare earth metals of the cerium group, the heavy rare earth metals of the yttrium group.
Dispersed element minerals include: germanium, gallium, indium, thallium, hafnium, rhenium, cadmium.