The same is true for other key minerals.
So are forests and their hundreds of crucial byproducts, as well as biodiversity of every kind, life in the oceans, coral reefs, and key minerals, including coltan (for your mobile phone), lithium, phosphorous, lead, zinc, tin, copper, gold, and hundreds of others.
The important contributions of these products in meeting human dietary requirements for energy, high quality protein, and several key minerals and vitamins are well documented, though the nutritional importance of dairy fats is often less well understood.
Seaweed can also provide other key minerals, such as calcium and iron.
Conservationists also blame the expansion in mining for coltan - a key mineral used in the manufacturing of mobile phones - for contributing to the gorilla's decline.
They also provide you with a key mineral for exercise, iron.
Jain et al. [ 23] also recorded that Cr is a key mineral for protection from heart diseases in streptozotocin-treated diabetic rats by reducing cholesterol levels in blood.
This key mineral is also involved in producing energy for cells, and is an integral part of many proteins and enzymes needed for optimal health.
Cobalt is a unique key mineral in Cobalamin or vitamin B12.
Figure 4 also shows that the agglomeration/sedimentation of CuO and ZnO was especially high in mineral media media that are used for key regulatory ecotoxicological assays (crustaceans, algae) described above.
