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    Mineral Identification Chart

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    The document provides information on the properties of various minerals, including their hardness on Mohs scale, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster, diaphaneity, specific gravity, and name. The minerals listed include metallic, submetallic and nonmetallic minerals ranging from hardness 1 to 9 on the Mohs scale. They vary in color, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster and whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.

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    The document provides information on the properties of various minerals, including their hardness on Mohs scale, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster, diaphaneity, specific gravity, and name. The minerals listed include metallic, submetallic and nonmetallic minerals ranging from hardness 1 to 9 on the Mohs scale. They vary in color, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster and whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.

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    The document provides information on the properties of various minerals, including their hardness on Mohs scale, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster, diaphaneity, specific gravity, and name. The minerals listed include metallic, submetallic and nonmetallic minerals ranging from hardness 1 to 9 on the Mohs scale. They vary in color, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster and whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.

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    Mineral Identification Chart

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    The document provides information on the properties of various minerals, including their hardness on Mohs scale, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster, diaphaneity, specific gravity, and name. The minerals listed include metallic, submetallic and nonmetallic minerals ranging from hardness 1 to 9 on the Mohs scale. They vary in color, streak, cleavage, fracture, luster and whether they are transparent, translucent or opaque.

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    METALLIC TO SUBMETALLIC MINERALS FRACTURE CLEAVAGE STREAK yellow or brown white, yellow, or brown CLEAVAGE colorless COLOR yellow,

    brown, black white, red yellow, brown, green, black dark green, dark brown, or black black, silver, or gray brassy yellow red -brown, black, silver black or silver brownish HARDNESS FRACTURE CLEAVAGE one direction indistinct perfect cleavage in 6 directions perfect cleavage in one direction cleavage sometimes indistinct conchoidal fracture LUSTER DIAPHANEITY OTHER PROPERTIES silky, fibrous appearance brittle, looks like resin thin flakes, tough, flexible marks paper, soils fingers, slippery sometimes in crystal shapes sometimes oolitic or magnetic strongly magnetic SPECIFIC GRAVITY 3.3 -4.3 MINERAL NAME GOETHITE

    5 - 5.5

    submetallic

    translucent

    3.5 - 4

    submetallic

    translucent

    3.9 - 4.1

    SPHALERITE

    2.5 - 3

    submetallic metallic or submetallic metallic metallic or submetallic metallic or submetallic metallic

    translucent

    2.8 - 3.2

    BIOTITE

    black

    1-2

    opaque

    2.23

    GRAPHITE

    black

    6 - 6.5

    opaque

    5.02

    PYRITE

    reddish

    5 - 6.5

    fracture

    opaque

    5.56

    HEMATITE

    black FRACTURE black greenish black

    fracture

    opaque

    5.18

    MAGNETITE

    fracture

    opaque

    weakly magnetic

    4.58 - 4.65

    PYRRHOTITE

    brassy yellow brassy with iridescent colors

    3.5 - 4

    fracture indistinct cleavage

    metallic

    opaque

    brittle iridescent peacock colors

    4.1 - 4.3

    CHALCOPYRITE

    black

    metallic

    opaque

    5.0 -5.1

    BORNITE

    By: Art Crossman

    http://geology.com/

    Mineralogy / Petrology (1997)

    NONMETALLIC MINERALS HARDNESS (7 - 4) STREAK white or colorless white or colorless white or colorless white or colorless greenish CLEAVAGE colorless yellow or brown white white to gray white, yellow, or brown white COLOR green to black white, gray, pink, clear, green, yellow white, gray clear, blue green colorless, gray, white green, gray brown, black brown, dark green, black yellow, brown, or black green, brown yellow, pink violet, etc. greenish, yellowish, black white, red yellow, brown green, black pink, white gray, and others HARDNESS FRACTURE CLEAVAGE one direction indistinct two directions at 90 degrees two directions at 90 degrees one direction indistinct two directions intersects at 90 degrees two directions intersects at 56 & 124 degrees one direction indistinct poor cleavage in one direction one direction indistinct perfect cleavage in 6 directions 3 direction, rhombic indistinct LUSTER DIAPHANEITY transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent OTHER PROPERTIES typically pistachio green few if any striations striations on cleavage faces softer than quartz, cleavage brittle appears fibrous or silky appears fibrous or silky brittle, fractured masses varigated, sometimes fibrous brittle, looks like resin HCl fizz only with powder SPECIFIC GRAVITY 3.35 -3.4 MINERAL NAME EPIDOTE

    6-7

    vitreous - dull

    6 - 6.5

    vitreous

    2.5 - 2.6

    ORTHOCLASE

    vitreous greasy vitreous vitreous to dull vitreous dull to admantine

    2.6 -2.8

    PLAGIOCLASE

    5.5 - 6

    2.6 - 2.65

    NEPHELINE

    5 - 5.5

    transluscent

    3.2 - 3.6

    AUGITE

    5-6

    transluscent

    3.0 - 3.4

    HORNBLENDE

    5 - 5.5

    transluscent transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent

    3.3 - 4.3

    GOETHITE

    vitreous greasy to waxy resinous to adamantine vitreous pearly

    3.1 - 3.2

    APATITE

    3-5

    2.3

    SERPENTINE

    3.5 - 4

    transluscent transparent, transluscent

    3.9 - 4.1

    SPHALERITE

    3.5 - 4

    2.85

    DOLOMITE

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    NONMETALLIC MINERALS HARDNESS (4 - 1) STREAK COLOR any color clear, yellow purple, blue white, gray red, brown clear, etc. white, gray green, yellow clear, etc. dark green dark brown or black yellow to brown in thin sheets greenish, gray, black clear, white yellowish, silvery, etc. white, gray, yellowish white, gray blue, red clear white, gray brown, red clear & others green, gray white, silver & other colors HARDNESS FRACTURE CLEAVAGE perfect four directions perfect 3 directions small faces perfect 3 directions, "rhombic" perfect cleavage in one direction perfect in one direction perfect in one direction indistinct perfect cleavage in one direction one direction but usually indistinct perfect 3 directions at 90 degrees perfect in one direction 2 indistinct one direction but usually indistinct LUSTER DIAPHANEITY transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent OTHER PROPERTIES sometimes fluorescent very heavy for a nonmetallic mineral breaks rhombic HCl reaction double refraction thin flakes, tough, flexible frequently a copper - like luster foliated or scaly appearance splits into thin sheets plastic when wet crumbly when dry water soluble, tastes salty sometimes as fibrous masses feels greasy, tiny flakes upon rubbing SPECIFIC GRAVITY 3.18 MINERAL NAME FLUORITE

    white

    vitreous

    white

    3 - 3.5

    vitreous- pearly

    4.3 - 4.6

    BARITE

    white

    vitreous- pearly

    2.71

    CALCITE

    colorless colorless to white gray to green colorless

    2.5 - 3

    nonmetallic vitreous to pearly vitreous dull pearly vitreous to pearly dull, earthy vitreous to pearly vitreous to pearly pearly to greasy

    transluscent

    2.8 - 3.2

    BIOTITE

    2.5 - 3

    transparent transparent, transluscent

    2.68

    PHLOGOPITE

    CLEAVAGE

    2 - 2.5

    2.6 - 3.3

    CHLORITE

    2 - 2.5

    transparent

    2.7 - 3.0

    MUSCOVITE

    white

    2 - 2.5

    transluscent transparent, transluscent transparent, transluscent transluscent, opaque

    2.6

    KAOLINITE

    white

    2 - 2.5

    2.16

    HALITE

    white

    1.5 - 2

    2.3 - 2.4

    GYPSUM

    white

    2.7 - 2.8

    TALC

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    NONMETALLIC MINERALS HARDNESS (9 - 1) STREAK COLOR brown, pink, blue & others black, green brown, pink yellow usually red, green, black or any color any color olive, green, brown red - brown, silver, or black yellow, brown, or black white, gray yellow, red brown HARDNESS FRACTURE CLEAVAGE fracture, sometimes with parting fracture LUSTER vitreous to adamantine vitreous vitreous to resinous vitreous to greasy vitreous DIAPHANEITY transparent, transluscent transparent, to opaque transparent, to opaque transparent to transluscent transparent to transluscent opaque transluscent, opaque transluscent, opaque OTHER PROPERTIES sometimes has hexagonal crystals sometimes striations sometimes isometric crystals sometimes has hexagonal crystals frequently as granular masses sometimes oolitic or magnetic earthy color and appearance pisolitic SPECIFIC GRAVITY 4.02 MINERAL NAME CORUNDUM

    colorless

    colorless

    7 - 7.5

    3.02 - 3.2

    TOURMALINE

    colorless

    6.5 - 7.5

    fracture conchoidal fracture conchoidal fracture

    3.5 - 4.3

    GARNET

    colorless FRACTURE colorless

    2.65

    QUARTZ

    6.5 - 7

    3.27 - 4.27

    OLIVINE

    reddish

    5 - 6.5

    fracture

    dull

    5.26

    HEMATITE

    yellowish-brown

    4 - 5.5

    fracture

    dull

    2.7 - 4.3

    LIMONITE

    white

    1-3

    fracture

    dull earthy

    2.00 - 2.55

    BAUXITE

    By: Art Crossman

    http://geology.com/

    Mineralogy / Petrology (1997)

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