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- Fluorite
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness: 4
- Octahedron Cleavage (4 planes)
- White Streak
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- Talc
- Pearly Luster (Greasy Feeling)
- Hardness 1
- Basal Cleavage
- White Streak
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- Gypsum:
- Pearly/Vitrious Luster
- White, Grey orangish or light brown
- Basal cleavage
- Hardness 2
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- Calcite
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness 3
- Rhombohedral Cleavage
- White Streak
- FIZZES IN ACID!!!!
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- Apatite
- Earthy Dark Luster
- Can be Green, Brown, Blue, Purple
- Poor Basal Cleavage
- White Streak
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- Corrundum
- Barrel Shaped: some striations
- Redish
- Hardness: 9
- Irregular Fracture
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- Hematite
- Earthy Luster
- Color: Red/brown
- Hardness: 5-6
- Irregular Fracture
- Red Streak
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- Galena
- Bright Metallic Luster
- Shiny lead grey
- Hardness 2.5
- Perfect Cubic clevage
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- Hematite: Metallic
- Red Streak
- Color: Steel Grey
- Irregular Fracture
- Hardness 5-6
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- Magnetite
- Black Color
- Hardness 6
- MAGNETIC
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- Garnet
- Black Red Soccer Ball:
- Hardness: 6.5-7.5
- White Streak
- Irregular Fracture
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- Chlorite
- Hardness: 2.5
- Vitreous to earthy luster
- White Streak
- Basal Cleavage
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- Halite
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness: 2.5
- White Streak
- Cubic Cleavage
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- Calcite
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness: 2.5
- White to clear color
- White streak
- Rhombohedral Cleavage
- FIZZES IN ACID
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- Olivine
- Vitreous to Earthy Luster
- Hardness: 6.5-7
- Greenish yellow color
- White streak (normally to hard)
- Fracture: Irregular
- Green Mass
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- Augite
- Vitreous Luster
- Black-Dark green
- Hardness: 5-6
- White Streak
- Cleavage: 90 degrees
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- Hornblende
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness 5.5-6
- Dark grey/blackish rock with yellow bits
- White Streak
- Cleavage at 54 and 124
- Look for 6 sided crystal for mineral
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- Biotite
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness: 2.5-4
- Black/brown dark green
- Cleavage: Basal
- THIN ELASTIC SHEETS
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- Ca-Plagioclase
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness: 5.5-6.5
- Dark grey/grey
- Streak white
- Cleavage: 2 at 90 degrees
- LOOK FOR STRIATIONS
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- Na-Plagioclase
- Vitreous Luster
- Hardness: 5.5-6.5
- White/salmon
- Streak white
- Cleavage: 2 at 90 degrees
- LOOK FOR STRIATIONS
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- Orthoclase
- Vitreous
- Hardness: 5.5-6.5
- Clearish Yellow
- White streak
- Cleavage: 2 planes at 90 degrees
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- Muscovite
- Vitreous to Pearly Luster
- Hardness: 3.5
- Clearish Silver yellow
- White Streak
- Cleavage: Basal
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- Name: Granite
- Texture: Phaneritic Intrusive
- Silica Content: Felsic
- Composition: Orthoclase, Quartz
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- Name: Basalt
- Texture: Aphanitic
- Silica Content: Mafic
- Composition: Ca-Plagioclase, Augite
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- Name: Peridotite
- Texture: Phaneritic
- Silica Content: Ultra-Mafic
- Composition: Olivine, Augite
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- Name: Andesite
- Texture: Aphanitic
- Silica Content: Intermediate
- Composition: Na/Ca-Plagioclase, Hornblende
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- Name: Gabbro
- Texture: Intrusive Phaneritic
- Silica Content: Mafic
- Composition: Ca-Plagioclase, augite (olivine may make it look greenish)
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- Name: Rhyolite
- Texture: Extrusive Aphanitic
- Silica Content: Felsic
- Composition: Quartz, Orthoclase, Na-Plagioclase
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- Name: Granite Pegmatite
- Texture: Intrusive Pegmatitic
- Silica Content: Felsic
- Composition: Quartz, Orthoclase, Na-Plagioclase
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- Name: Scoria
- Texture: Vesicular
- Silica Content: Intermediate
- Composition: Na/Ca-Plagioclase, Hornblende
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- Name: Rhyolite Tuff Breccia
- Texture: Pyroclastic
- Silica Content: Felsic
- Composition: Quartz, Orthoclase, Na-Plagioclase
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- Name: Coquina
- Type: Chemical
- Texture: Bioclastic
- Sorting: Poor
- Fizzes in acid
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- Name: Arkose
- Type: Clastic
- Grain size/shape: sub-rounded/med fine sand
- Sorting: Poor
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- Name: Micrite
- Type: Chemical
- Texture: Microcrystalline
- Grain size/shape: silt/clay
- Fizzes in acid
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- Name: Chert
- Type: Chemical
- Texture: Microcrystalline
- Grain size/shape: silt/clay
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- Name: Quartz Sandstone
- Type: Clastic
- Grain size/shape: Fine/rounded
- Sorting: Poor
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- Name: Shale
- Type: Clastic
- Grain size/shape: silt/clay
- Thin Layered cleavage
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- Name: Rock Gypsum
- Type: Chemical - Crystalline
- Grain Size/Shape: very fine/sub-angular
- Gooey in water
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- Name: Conglomerate
- Type: Clastic
- Grain shape/size: sub-rounded pebbles
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- Name: Oolithic Limestone
- Type: Chemical - Crystalline
- Small rounded spheres
- Fizzes in acid
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- Name: Greywacke
- Type: Clastic
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- Name: Fossiliferous Limestone
- Type: Chemical - Crystalline
- Has fossils in it
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- Name: Dolostone
- Type: Chemical - Crystalline
- Silt/clay
- Reacts to acid
- has deep holes
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