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Minerals
Minerals
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Geology
Undergraduate 1
02/19/2012

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actinolite:

 

dark to pale green

forms needles, prisms, good cleavage

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horneblende 

 

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APATITE

 

pale colors

brittle

forms hexagonal prisms

conchoidal fracture

 

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Augite

2 strong clevages 

forms 8 sided prisms

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Azurite

 

distinctive blue color

forms small crystals

brittle

effervesces in HCI

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Barite

 

multi colored to white

brittle heavy

good to excellent clevage 

 

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Bauxite

 

brown rock with shades of grey white and yellow

contains pea sized structures

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biotite mica

 

black

excellent cleavage

splits easily into thin flexible sheets

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Bornite

 

brownish bronze, tarnishes strangely

cleavage absent

harndess 3

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calcite

 

colerless or pale

excellent clevage in 3 directons, forms prisms 

reacts with HCI

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Chalcedony

 

laminations, light colors

lustor is waxy 

 

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Chalcopyrite

 

bright silvery gold tarnishes gold

no cleavege, brittle

 

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