GEOLOGY
GEOLOGY
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Taste
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Color
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Luster
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Hardness
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Detailed explanation-1: -Color. Color is rarely very useful for identifying a mineral. Different minerals may be the same color.
Detailed explanation-2: -Color. One of the most obvious properties of a mineral is color. Color should be considered when identifying a mineral, but should never be used as the major identifying characteristic.
Detailed explanation-3: -Minerals can be identified based on a number of properties. The properties most commonly used in identification of a mineral are colour, streak, lustre, hardness, crystal shape, cleavage, specific gravity and habit. Most of these can be assessed relatively easily even when a geologist is out in the field.
Detailed explanation-4: -Taste, Smell, & Touch For example, the mineral halite (salt) can be determined by tasting your specimen, whereas pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite will all have a distinctive “rotten egg” scent.