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Identify the Georgia Minerals
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1. What is this mineral?
Properties:
• Color: white or colorless
• Hardness: 3 - 3.5
• Streak: white
• Specific Gravity: 4.3 - 5
• Breakage: Conchoidal fracture
• Luster: Vitreous
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1. This mineral is Barite.
• Formula: BaSO4
• Crystal Structure:
Orthorhombic (usually cubic or stretched cubic) • Uses: cement, cosmetics, paints
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2. What is this mineral?Properties:
•Color: colorless or tinted gray, brown, yellow, green, or rarely, red or violet
•Hardness: 2 - 2.5
•Streak: white
•Specific Gravity: 2.6 - 3
•Breakage: perfect basal cleavage - splits into thin sheets
•Luster: vitreous, pearly
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2. This mineral is Mica.
• Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(F,OH)2
• Crystal Structure:
Monoclinic
• Uses: fireproofing, lubricant
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3. What is this mineral?Properties:
•Color: white to gray to pink
•Hardness: 1.5 - 2
•Streak: white
•Specific Gravity: 2.31 - 2.33
•Breakage: Conchoidal Fracture, sometimes fibrous
•Luster: vitreous to silky to pearly
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3. This mineral is Gypsum.
• Formula: CaSO4·2H2O
• Crystal Structure:
Monoclinic
• Uses: blackboard chalk, toothpaste, surgical casts, plaster of Paris, drywall
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4. What is this mineral?Properties:
•Color: brown, copper red, light pink, red
•Hardness: 2.5
•Streak: redidsh copper
•Specific Gravity: 8,9
•Breakage: Hackly - jagged
•Luster: Metallic
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4. This mineral is Copper.
• Formula: Cu
• Crystal Structure:
Mostly cubic (isometric)
• Uses: wiring, coins
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5. What is this mineral?Properties:
• Color: usually white
• Hardness: 1.5 - 2
• Streak: white
• Specific Gravity: 2.6
• Breakage: Basal cleavage
• Luster: earthy (dull)
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5. This mineral is Kaolin.• Formula: Al2O3·2SiO2·2H2O
• Crystal Structure:
Tetrahedral layer
+ Octohedral layer
• Uses: Paper manufacturing, ceramics, medicine, toothpaste
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6. What is this mineral?Properties:
• Color: white, gray, yellow, red, orange, and rarely, green
• Hardness: 6
• Streak: white
• Specific Gravity: 2.56 - 2.58
• Breakage: cleavage
• Luster: vitreous to pearly
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6. This mineral is Feldspar.
• Formula: KAlSi3O8
• Crystal Structure:
Monoclinic
• Uses: porcelain,
scouring powder,
when pearly - called Moonstone and used in jewelry
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7. What is this mineral?Properties:
• Color: clear if no impurities, then pink, gray, purple, yellow, green, brown, orange
• Hardness: 7
• Streak: white
• Specific Gravity: 2.65
• Breakage: Conchoidal Fracture
• Luster: Vitreous
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7. This mineral is Quartz.
• Formula: SiO2
• Crystal Structure:
Hexagonal
(Six-sided prisms - often distorted)
• Uses: lenses, glass, digital watches, sandpaper
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8. What is this mineral?Properties:
•Color: white to green to gray
•Hardness: 1 (softest mineral on Moh’s hardness scale)
•Streak: white
•Specific Gravity: 2.5 - 2.8
•Breakage: perfect basal cleavage
•Luster: waxy or pearly
•Special Property: soapy feel
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8. This mineral is Talc.
• Formula: Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
• Crystal Structure:
Monoclinic
• Uses: heat-resistant science lab countertops, paints, insecticides
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9. What is this mineral?Properties:
• Color: red brown to black
• Hardness: 7 - 7.5
• Streak: white to gray
• Specific Gravity: 3.65 - 3.77
• Breakage: Sub-conchoidal fracture
• Luster: vitreous - dull
• Special Property: often appears twinned in a cross shape
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9. This mineral is Staurolite.
• Formula: • (Fe,Mg,Zn)2Al9(Si,Al)4O22OH2
• Crystal Structure:
Monoclinic-prismatic
• Uses: GEORGIA’S STATE
MINERAL
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