**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to thank the PRODEP-SEP of the government of Mexico for the financial support in the publishing of this chapter. Also thy would like to thank Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo and the CONACyT for the Master degree scholarship granted to the student Edgar Omar Mejía Serrano who worked this theme, during his thesis project (number 627910).

## **Conflict of interest**

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

### **Notes**

This chapter not only shows unpublished preliminary results obtained by the authors where they have evaluated the capacity of ion exchange for some natural minerals found in the state of Hidalgo Mexico, but also exhibits an exhalative sedimentary mineral found by the same authors in the north of the state of Hidalgo, where ore mineral has important contents of precious metals and some rare earths elements.
