矿物和人类生活关系极为密切。我们的祖先在旧石器时代就已知用较为坚硬的砾石作石器,这说明原始人对某些岩矿已有所认识并开始有选择的使用。在新石器时代,随着细石器和陶器的制作,人们认识和使用的岩矿逐渐增多。距今六千至四千年间的青莲岗石器已多采用硬度较高的闪长岩、玄武岩、片麻岩等制成石斧,以硬度稍低的页岩、角岩、砂岩、云母片岩等制一般工具, Mineral and human life are closely related. Our ancestors knew of the use of harder gravel as a stone device during the Paleolithic period, suggesting that the primitives knew some rocks and began to use them selectively. During the Neolithic period, rock mines became known and used as the production of fine and pottery. Ching Lin Gang stone from 6,000 to 4,000 years ago has been more use of high hardness diorite, basalt, gneiss and other made stone ax, the hardness of shale, horn rock, sandstone, mica schist Equal system of general tools,