Resources/Resources II

Normal Metals

• Antimonium: commodity with unknown uses
• Baakonite: used for alloy in edged tools and weapons
• Bakrinium: commodity with unknown uses
• Beritium: valuable and used in light alloys for atmospheric craft
• Boridium: used in energy cells and in edged tools and weapons
• Cormaline: relatively common and widely-used mineral
• Cortenide: used to make light-weight casings
• Cortenum: used in the construction of warp nacelles
• Dentarium: used in the construction of starship hulls
• Diamide: used in light alloys for atmospheric craft
• Diburnium: used in security features, such as brigs
• Dicosilium: used in mirrors and other optically-reflective devices
• Ditanium: used in the construction of trans-atmospheric hulls (such as shuttlecraft)
• Duranium: commonly used in the construction of starship hulls, shuttlecraft and gravity technology
• Duridium: used in making durable barrels
• Duritanium: used to provide protection from explosions in starship (and shuttlecraft) hulls and later casings of small objects
• Fortanium: mineral often used (by some cultures) to build space stations
• Germanium: used in transistors
• Golside: ore with unknown uses
• Magnesite: used in warp drive reactors (as a form of protection from antimatter radiation) & hulls and can be used to interfere with certain types of scans and energy beams, including the transporter
• Nitrium: widely used in the construction of Federation starships and warp reactors; can be found in asteroids
• Noranium: very common ore used in metal alloys
• Osmium: used in radiation shielding (such as warp nacelles)
• Paricium: used in the construction of early space installations (out of favor by 24th c.)
• Polysilicate verterium: used in the construction of warp nacelles
• Sonodamite: used in the construction of trans-atmospheric hulls (such as shuttlecraft)
• Terminium: used as hull casing for photon torpedoes
• Tetraburnium: used in the hulls of trans-atmospheric crafts and probes designed for high pressure and heat (such as in a gas giant)
• Topaline: a rare mineral critical to the function of life support systems and sometimes used by early spacefarers
• Toranium: used in the construction of space installations, usually of a military nature
• Trevium: used in some light generation devices
• Trimagnesite: used in some light generation devices
• Tritanium: when used within an alloy, is a widely-used construction material, such as ship bulkheads
• Victurium: used in starship superstructures, especially those with high sensor capabilities, such as scouts and survey ships

Special Metals

• Bernicium: used in replicators
• Boronite: extremely rare; necessary component for synthesis of Omega molecules
• Feldomite: rare commodity with unknown uses
• Gallicite: rare mineral used in the construction of warp coils; though rare, often found in large deposits
• Kelbonite: refractory mineral capable of deflecting or interfering with certain types of scans and energy beams, including the transporter
• Ladarium: mineral used in the warp drives of some cultures, including the Cardassians
• Latinum: rare, non-replicable liquid metal used as currency
• Mercassium: rare material used (generally only) in construction of Federation shield generators
• Rodinium: very hard, used in construction of spacecraft and fixed installations
• Ryetalyn: rather rare mineral that is the only known cure for the deadly Rigelian fever
• Trellium: a mineral used as insulation against certain anomalies, but causes neural pathways of Vulcans to degrade
• Ultritium: explosive mineral
• Uridium: unstable mineral used in ship construction and sensor arrays
• Vendarite: rare commodity with unknown uses
• Zenite: when refined, often used to treat plant diseases

Radioactives

• Kemocite: highly-regulated mineral that was a multiphasic isotope of a radiolytic compound; it has many applications depending on the level of refinement
• Neosorium: used in replicator technology
• Paralithium: used as fuel for some ion-based propulsion systems, and can be converted into trilithium
• Pergium: element often used in life-support equipment, such as auxiliary reactors; usually found deep underground in veins
• Uranium: element used in fission reactors

Gem Stones

• Jevonite: used to enhance other objects, such as ornamental weapons
• Keva: used in jewelry common as badges of office

Industrial Crystals

• Benamite: rare and unstable; extremely difficult to synthesize; useful in quantum warp drives
• Bilitrium: used in antimatter-based energy sources and explosives
• Dilithium: critical to advanced warp drive's matter/antimatter reactions
• Tricyanate: poisonous to humanoids, but used in some industrial capacities