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1 Minerals to Know

2 mica Silicate Hardness: 2-3 Luster: pearly

3 Feldspar Silicate Streak: white Hardness: 6

4 quartz Color: variety Streak: colorless Hardness: 7 silicate

5 calcite Fizzes with acid Common mineral found in all rock types
Carbonate Hardness 3

6 Need to be able to recognize by observation

7 Sulfur Hardness: Streak: white smell

8 Magnetite Hardness: Streak: black Magnetic

9 Graphite Luster: metallic Streak: black

10 Pyrite Hardness: 6 Known as “fool’s gold” Luster: metallic
Streak: black with green tint

11 Galena Streak: gray to black Hardness: 3

12 Hematite Oxide Hardness: 5-6 Streak: rust red

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