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To identify an unknown mineral, start by answering the following questions: (1) What colour is the mineral? (2) What is the relief of the mineral?
To identify an unknown mineral, start by answering the following questions: (1) What colour is the mineral? (2) What is the relief of the mineral?
Feldspar — Feldspar is a rockforming mineral. It is important industrially in making glass, ceramics, enamelware and soaps. It is also used in making bonding ...
Uraninite. Comments: Polished slab of black "gummite" ore with the uraninite altering to various secondary uranium minerals in a brecciated matrix.
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Mineral processing is a major division in the science of Extractive Metallurgy. Extractive metallurgy has been defined as the science and art of extracting metals ...
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Detailed description, properties, and locality information guide about the mineral fluorite.
In the bauxite refining process, the aluminumbearing minerals in bauxite are converted in a multiplestep process to alumina (Al2O3). Alumina can be smelted to form ...
Detailed description, properties, locality information guide about the mineral witherite.
MINERAL IDENTIFICATION KEY by Alan Plante Donald Peck. We wish to make this key available to one and all in the hope of correct identification of minerals in ...
How to conduct a hardness test on an unknown rock or mineral using Mohs Scale of hardness.
A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and abiogenic in origin. A mineral has one specific chemical composition, whereas a ...
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Fluorite is very easy to identify if you consider cleavage, hardness, and specific gravity. It is the only common mineral that has four directions of perfect cleavage ...
History of Fluorite. Fluorite has only been recognized as a distinct mineral since the eighteenth century, making it difficult to establish its ancient and medieval ...
Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF 2. It belongs to the halide minerals. It crystallizes in isometric cubic habit, although ...
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