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ACTIVITY FOR ROCK-FORMING MINERAL IDENTIFICATION

Streak Special
Mineral Color Luster Hardness Cleavage/Fracture Uses
Color Characteristics
7
Colorless

? to various
colors
White Vitreous
(Harder
than
glass)
Conchoidal fracture none
?
White, 6

? pink, or
gray
White
Vitreous
(glassy)
(Scratched
by steel)
Cleavage at 90
degrees
Common in
igneous rocks ?
2.5-3
Vitreous
Black to White (Easily

? dark
brown
to
gray
(glassy)
to
pearly
scratched
by
Perfect basal
cleavage
Forms thin
sheets ?
fingernail)
2.5-3
Vitreous
Colorless (Easily

? to pale
shades
White
(glassy)
to
pearly
scratched
by
Perfect basal
cleavage
Forms thin
sheets ?
fingernail)
White
Black to 5.5-6

? dark
green
to
pale
green
Vitreous
(glassy)
(Scratches
glass)
Cleavage at nearly
90 degrees
Common in
mafic rocks ?
White
Black to 5-6

? dark
green
to
pale
green
Vitreous
(glassy)
(Scratches
glass)
Prismatic cleavage
Common in
mafic rocks ?
Colorless, 3 (Easily

? white, or
various
colors
White
Vitreous
(glassy)
scratched
by
fingernail)
Rhombohedral
cleavage
Effervesces
with acid ?
Salty taste,

? Colorless
or white
White
Vitreous
(glassy)
2.5 (Very
soft)
Cubic cleavage often found in
salt domes
?
Colorless Vitreous
Forms in

? to
various
colors
White
(glassy)
to
pearly
2 (Very
soft)
Perfect cleavage
into thin sheets
sedimentary
environments
?
 Magnetic,
Black to common in

? metallic
gray
Black Metallic
5.5-6.5
(Magnetic)
Metallic luster igneous and
metamorphic
?
rocks
* NOTE: Please have this printed and attach in your logbook.

Prepared by:

TAMMY SALOME BERANGO-MOLATO

T-II, SHS Science

Noted:

MA. LOIDA B. BOTICARIO

T-II, OIC-SHS Science