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26 Cards in this Set
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Galena
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Cleavage - 3 excellent
Hardness- 2.5 Color - silver-grey Other - none |
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Pyrrhotite
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 3.5-4.5 Color - bronze Other - magnetic |
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Magnetite
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 6 Color - dark gray to black Other - dull lustre, attracted to magnet |
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Pyrite
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 6-6.5 Color - brass yellow Other - cubic habit |
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Hematite
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 6 Color - steel gray to dull red Other - massive or tiny flakes |
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Sulfur
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 1.5-2.5 Color - yellow Other - resinous lustre |
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Sphalerite
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Cleavage - 6
Hardness- 3.5-4 Color - brown to yellow, or black Other - resinous lustre |
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Hematite
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 1.5-5.5 Color - red to reddish brown Other - dull lustre, earthy |
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Talc
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Cleavage - 1
Hardness- 1-2 Color - white, gray Other - soapy feel |
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Muscovite
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Cleavage - 1
Hardness- 2-3 Color - colorless to light brown Other - colorless and flexible in thin sheets |
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Biotite
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Cleavage - 1 perfect
Hardness- 2.5-3 Color - black to brownish-black Other - vitreous lustre |
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Halite
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Cleavage - 3 excellent at 90
Hardness- 2-2.5 Color - colorless to white Other - perfect cleavage |
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Sylvite
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Cleavage - 3 excellent at 90
Hardness- 2.5 Color - colorless, white, gray, reddish Other - bitter taste |
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Calcite
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Cleavage - 3 excellent
Hardness- 3 Color - colorless, white Other - effervesces in HCL |
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Dolomite
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Cleavage - 3 excellent
Hardness- 3.5-4 Color - white Other - reacts slowly with HCL |
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Gypsum
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Cleavage - 3
Hardness- 2 Color - white or transparent Other - none |
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Fluorite
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Cleavage - 4
Hardness- 4 Color - colorless, yellow, green or Violet Other - good cleavage, vitreous |
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Olivine
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 6.5-7.5 Color - olive green Other - vitreous to dull lustre |
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Garnet
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 7-7.5 Color - red-gurgundy, brown Other - vitreous lustre |
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Staurolite
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 7+ Color - red-brown Other - vitreous to dull lustre, hexagonal cross section |
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Plagioclase
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Cleavage - 2 excellent
Hardness- 6 Color - gray to blue-gray Other - none |
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Pyroxene
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Cleavage - 2 excellent
Hardness- 6 Color - dark green to black Other - none |
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Amphibole
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Cleavage - 2 at about 60 and 120
Hardness- 6 Color - black Other - none |
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Quartz
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Cleavage - none
Hardness- 7+ Color - colorless, white, smoky |
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Kyanite
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Cleavage - 1
Hardness- 4-7 Color - light blue to greenish blue Other - vitreous lustre, |
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Plagioclase
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Cleavage - 2
Hardness- 6 Color - white to dark gray Other - 2 good at 90, vitreous lustre |