"raw minerals" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to minerals in their natural, unprocessed form before they have been refined or otherwise altered. For example: "The mine yielded a variety of raw minerals, including gold and silver."
Indonesia, rich in resources, is imposing a tax of 20 percent on some metal ore exports and will prohibit shipments of raw minerals unless miners submit plans to build smelters.
Most of the manufacturing that occurs in the state is related to the processing of the raw minerals mined there.
HONG KONG — New Indonesian taxes on metals and curbs on the shipment of raw minerals may curtail exports of the materials to China, highlighting concerns over the effects of the policy on the Indonesian economy.
In 2014 the government banned the export of some raw minerals in a disastrous effort to ramp up domestic smelting; exports of bauxite collapsed from 55m to 500,000 tonnes within a year, without any concomitant rise in alumina or aluminium exports.Local-content laws abound, covering energy, retailing and carmaking, among other sectors.
He's tried to design Soylent from the most elementary level possible with raw minerals and vitamins.
The rules, which mean all raw minerals must be processed in Indonesia before they're exported, were supposed to boost jobs.
Calcium carbonate as a raw, natural mineral has been used in a wide range of applications including biomedical, industrial, and nanotechnology [10, 19 21].
The report says that Huayou Cobalt sources more than 40% of its cobalt from the DRC and processes the raw mineral before selling it to battery makers, who claim to supply companies including Apple, Microsoft and Vodafone.
The succession of soils is from the raw mineral type of the summit area, through the dark peaty loams of the Afro-Alpine zone and the strong brown loams of high organic content in the forest belt, to the ferruginous (iron-bearing) soils of the lower slopes.
A European Union vice president, Antonio Tajani, rushed here to Greenland's capital in June, offering hundreds of millions in development aid in exchange for guarantees that Greenland would not give China exclusive access to its rare earth metals, calling his trip "raw mineral diplomacy".
We need to identify more possible raw mineral sources.
