MUSCOTIVE MICA
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/673195.jpg)
Muscotive Mica is very colorless. It is a pale brown color. It peels into thin, elastic sheets that are colorless.
BIOTITE MICA
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/2457819.jpg)
Biotite Mica is either brown or black. It peels just like the Muscotive Mica does: thin,elastic sheets.
SULFER
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/3342314.jpg)
Sulfer has a distinctive color. The color would be a bright lemon yellow. It gives me a headache thinking about it. It can be translucent or transparent. Sulfer does not have cleavage. Sulfur breaks easily. It also has an sulfury oder.
PYRITE
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/2933421.jpg)
Pyrite is also known as "fools gold" because it has a metallic yellow color. Pyrite is harder than gold so you won't mistake it for native gold. Gold can be scratched by a steel pin but pyrite can't. Pyrite can easily break. Pyrite would get broken into powders if you stepped on it but gold would just flatten out. when you do a streak test it leaves a greenish blackish color.
Magnetite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/1608485.jpg)
Magnetite is a brownish blackish mineral. You can easily identify it because it is the only common mineral that can be picked up by a magnet. When you do a streak test it leaves a black streak
Hematite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/5086007.jpg)
Hematite can either be a powdery brownish red, black, or metallic black. A black specimen of Hematite can resemble Magnetite except for the fact that Magnetite is magnetic and Hematite is not magnetic.
Galena
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/7046743.jpg)
Galena has a metallic luster and if you see this mineral it looks gray. Galena has a high density. Galena is much heavier than other minerals its size. Galena has three directions of cleavage that are right angles to each other. Galena brakes into shinny metallic looking cubes.
OLivine
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/8217312.jpg)
Olivine is a translucent and a transparent mineral. Olivine has a distinct yellowish greenish color. It can appear as a black powder that is volcanic rock know as basalt. Olivine grains are smaller than peas. If the Olivine is clear and solid it can be made into gemstone Olivine.
Azurite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/3119467.jpg)
Azurite is a bright blue mineral. It may occur with either green malachite or copper ore. Azurite is soft. On the Mohs Hardness scale it is 3.5.
Malachite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/6386795.png)
Malachite can either be a rich green color or a dark green color. It is a copper mineral. Like Azurite, Malachite is relevantly soft with a 3.5 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
Talc
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/7912242.jpg)
Talc is the softest mineral. It can be scratched with your fingernail.It sometimes has a pearly luster. Talc is described to have a greasy or soapy feel to it. Talc is mostly white but can be pale green or pale pink. You may be confused with Talc and Gypsum because they have similar appearances.
Gypsum
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/8228350.jpg)
Gypsum is a soft mineral that is light colored.It can be colorless, transparent,white, pale pink, or pale brown. If Gypsum is crystallized one side shows great cleavage (the cleavage is much thicker than mica and the fragments are not elastic.
Milky quartz
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/8393562.jpg)
Milky Quarts is white quarts. The white color comes from the carbon dioxide gas trapped inside of the mineral's quartz structure. Milky quartz is usually massive but well formed crystals are common. All quarts has a 7 on Mohs scale of hardness. Quarts can easily scratch glass too. Milky Quartz is shiny and translucent. Quartz has NO cleavage and breaks from a fracture.
Rose Quarts
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/2453241.jpg)
Rose Quartz is a bunch of massive, translucent quartz with a pink color. It has NO cleavage and it breaks with a conchoidal fracture. Rose Quartz has a shiny surface. Rose quartz can be used as a gemstone or a decorative garden stone.
Amethyst
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/4622014.jpg)
Amethyst is a purple quartz. It can appear as a well formed crystals in geodes or deformed crystals in mineral vein. If the quality is enough it can become a gemstone. The luster of this quartz is usually shinny.
Agate
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/3669126.jpg)
Agate is a crystal that has fibers of quart so small that they can't be seen with a regular microscope. This is known as cryptoctystalline. Agate usually forms into a bunch of bands and rough Agate has a wax texture. Agate is a semi-precious gemstone.
Orthoclase Feldspar
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/9843723.jpg)
Orthoclase Feldspar is a common silicate mineral.It is the red and pink colors found in igneous rock and granite. The common color of this mineral is a pinkish orange color but this can be found in white or bluish-greenish color.Orthoclase drains are less than one eighth of an inch. This mineral has a 6 on a Mohs Hardness Scale and can be scratched by quartz.
Calcite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/273968.jpg)
Calcite can come in many different colors and forms so it is hard to identify.One of the most common form of Calcite is in pointy pyramids that looks like a dog's tooth.Calcite ranges from transparent to translucent. This mineral can be colorless,white, cream,pale yellow,yellow-brown,brown and red. An easy way to distinguish Calcite is with an acid test.
Fluorite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/7246354.jpg)
It is easy to mix Calcite with Fluoride if you quickly examine it.If you study it Fluorite has 4 directions of cleavage and Calcite has 3 directions. Fluorite is harder than Calcite and can scratch Calcite. Fluorite is more colorful also. Fluorite colors can be purple, green, pink, brown, or colorless. Above all Fluorite does not fizz in hydrochloric acid.
Graphite
![Picture](/uploads/1/4/0/0/14006553/6484842.jpg)
Graphite is a very soft mineral that is gray. Graphite's luster is semi- metallic. This mineral has a greasy feel and can write on a piece of paper.This mineral makes up the lead in a pencil