Identifying Minerals

Color helps us identify minerals because all different minerals have all different colors .

Luster helps us identify minerals because all different minerals have all different luster for instance metallic, earthy or dole or glassy.

Streak helps us identify minerals because of the color it leaves behind.

Cleavage and Fracture help us identify minerals by how they brake.

Hardness helps us identify mineral by using the hardness scale and scratching other minerals.

Crystal shape helps us identify minerals by the way they form.

Density helps us identify minerals by how heavy they are, or if they float.

Magnetism helps us identify minerals by if there magnetic.

Fluorescence and Phosphorescence helps us if they glow or not.

Double Refraction helps if you can see double images.

Radioactivity helps us by identify the minerals 

 

The Rock Cycle

• You could go from magma to Igneous in the heat proses then back to Igneous through the cooling cycle , You could go from Magma through the cooling cycle to Igneous then through Heat and Pressure cycle after that’s done it brings you to Metamorphic Rock then a melting cycle and it then turns into magma once again.You could start with Magma go through the cooling cycle into Igneous Rock then through weathering and erosion it turns into sediments then back through weathering and erosion it turns into Sedimentary Rock then threw heat and pressure it turns to a Metamorphic Rock then threw melting it turns back into magma..

 

ROCKS

1. Igneous

• Pumice

 

• Basalt

 

• Granite

• Obsidian

1. Sedimentary

• Shale

 

• Sandstone

 

• limestone

 

• Conglomerate

1. Metamorphic

• Schist

 

• Marble

 

• Gneiss

 

• Slate

 

 

Mineral collecting

They are many different minerals, no one has collected them all. there aere over 3000 different ones. People coolect them sometimes in groups, like from where they come from or ocolor or size just any type of group.

People collect thumbnail and micromont minerals. the thumbnail is about one inch the micromont is even smaller the plus side is there cheaper and prettier and they conserve less space.

Every one has different storage you could use a milk carton or a nice cabnet.

 People like places of where they got the mineral almost as much as they like the mineral its self. on the index card they write all info about minerals plus where they got them.

Take care of your minerals all minerals can break. they need space and not much handling .. if y0ou dont take care of your minerals all of them will be useless… and if you clean them be very very careful

Common Minerals

Galena is a non-silicat and the main source or lead.

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Hematite is a non-silicant, its i=an iron ote.

Pyrite is a non-silicant, it is sometime called fools gold.

Stibinite is a non-silicant,sulfide mineral.

Barite is also a non silicant, it is a sufate mineral.

halite is a non silicant, an is rock salt.

fluorite is a non silicant, and a calcium fluoride.

malachite is a non silicant, and a bright green copper carbonate.

magnetite is a non silicant, and a naturally magnetic rock.

azurite is a non silicant, and a bright blue copper carbonate.

 

Quartzite is a silicant, and a metamorphic quartz sands.

Mica is a silicant, known for its perfect cleavage into thin sheets.

celestite is a non silicant, and a strontium sulfate, its name means celestial.

 

calsite is a non silicant, and a common carbonate mineral, often a replacement mineral in fossils

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