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Day 2 Highlighted Parts Flashcards

1
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Chemically pure and optically colorless variety of calcite

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Iceland spar

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2
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Cellular deposits formed around hot or cold calcareous springs are known as

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Travertine of tufa

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3
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Compact and cryptocrystalline magnesite may be associated with

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Opaline silica

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Magnesite found in talc, chlorite, mica schists, and in dolomitic limestones

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Cleavable magnesite

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5
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Siderite also occurs as ___________, with admixed clay minerals, in concretions with concentric layers.

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Clay ironstone

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6
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Siderite is also found in shales and coal measures as:

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Blackband ore

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7
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Yellow variety of smithsonite

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Turkey-fat ore

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The orthorhombic polymorph of calcite; the pearly layer of many shells and the pearl itself

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Aragonite (CaCO3)

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9
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Gives a yellowish-green flame test

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Witherite (BaCO3), Barite (BaSO4)

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10
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Gives a crimson flame test

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Strontianite (SrCO3), Celestite (SrSO4)

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11
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Shape of dolomite crystals that are strongly curved

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saddle-shaped

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12
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Ankerite becomes yellowish brown due to

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iron oxidation

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13
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Barite forms frequently in divergent groups or tabular crystals forming _________ or __________

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crested barite, barite roses

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14
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Anglesite (PbSO4) frequently occur as earthy, in concentric layers that may have an unaltered core of which mineral?

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Galena (PbS)

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15
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Found in much the same manner as gypsum, but is less common than gypsum

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Anhydrite (CaSO4)

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16
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Fibrous gypsum with silky luster

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Satin spar

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17
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Fine-grained massive variety of gypsum

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Alabaster

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18
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Gypsum variety that yields broad, colorless, and transparent cleavage folia

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Selenite

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19
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Most of these mineral will fluoresce with bluish-white color in short ultraviolet radiation

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Scheelite (CaWO4)

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20
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Massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite, constituting the bulk of phosphorite or phosphate rock

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Collophane

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21
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Phosphate materials of bones and teeth are members of the __________

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Apatite group

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22
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Gives a diagnostic red coloring

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Amblygonite

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23
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Ruby red in transparent crystals variety of cuprite

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Ruby copper

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24
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Red gem corundum

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Ruby

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25
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Gem corundum of any other color

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Sapphire

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26
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Black granular corundum; forms when magnetite is intergrown with corundum

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Emery

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27
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Micaceous and foliated hematite

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Specular hematite

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28
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Red earthy variety of hematite

29
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Platy and metallic variety of hematite

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Specularite

30
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Coarsely crystalline variation of pyrolusite with 6-6.5 hardness

31
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Most common manganese ore mineral

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Pyrolusite

32
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Reniform with radiating fibrous appearance variation of cassiterite

33
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Cassiterite variety that occurs as rolled pebbles in placer deposits

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Stream tin

34
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Massive or botryoidal form with a banded structure variety of uraninite

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Pitchblende

35
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Characterized by strong radioactivity (as detected by a Geiger counter or scintillation counter).

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Uraninite (UO2)

36
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Magnetite variety which may act as a natural magnet

37
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Characterized by its strong magnetism

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Magnetite (Fe3O4)

38
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This mineral commonly alters to pyrolusite

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Manganite (MnO(OH))

39
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Hard botryoidal masses formerly called ____________ are mixtures of mangangese oxides of with romanechite is a major contritutent

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Psilomelane

40
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Generally loose and porous goethite

41
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Constitutes the gossan or “iron hat” over metalliferous vein deposits

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Goethite (FeO(OH))

42
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Term used for very fine-grained to amorphous mixtures of brown ferric hydroxides whose real identities are unknown

43
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Bauxite consists of very fine-grained intergrowth of three aluminum hydroxides namely:

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Diaspore, Gibbsite, Boehmite

44
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Major ore of aluminum

45
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Formed in the tropics, is a soil consisting mainly of hydrous aluminum and ferric oxides

46
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Term used to describe the shape of a halite when the faces of the cube have grown more at the edges than in the center

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Hopper-shaped

47
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Halite crystals or granular crystalline masses showing cubic cleavage is known as

48
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Valuable deposits found in intrusive masses, in which their roots are in thick, bedded deposits

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Salt domes

49
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Characterized by its salty taste and yellow flame color

50
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May show fluorescence under ultraviolet radiation

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Fluorite (CaF2)

51
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Forming chalcocite blankets at the level of the water table in enriched zones of sulfide deposits

52
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___________ in large deposits has been precipitated from primary hydrothermal solutions.

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Native silver

53
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A diamond variety with rounded forms and rough exterior resulting from radial or cryptocrystalline aggregate. Term is also applied to badly colored or flawed diamonds without gem value.

54
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Black or grayish-black bort

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Carbonado or carbon

55
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The primary occurrence of diamonds is in altered peridotites called

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Kimberlite

56
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Intrusive bodies that are commonly circular with a pipe-like shape is referred to as

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Diamond pipes

57
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An area where a large percentage of diamonds are recovered from alluvial deposits

58
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Synthetic diamond simulant

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Cubic zirconia

59
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Term for the texture of an igneous rock in which larger crystals– phenocrysts– are set in a finer-grained groundmass

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Porphyrytic

60
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Tarnished to variegated purple and blue mineral

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Peacock ore

61
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Red variety of sphalerite

62
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Most common mineral ore of zinc

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Sphalerite (ZnS)

63
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Major ore mineral for nickel

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Pentlandite (Fe,Ni)9S8

64
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The presence of nickel can be quickly established through a scarlet coloration forming in a test using:

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dimethylglioxime

65
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Occurs as a volcanic sublimation product and as a deposit from hot springs

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Realgar (As4S4)

66
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A rare mineral often associated with realgar and formed under similar conditions

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Orpiment (As2S3)

67
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Pyrite veins are usually capped by a cellular deposit of limonite called

68
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Most common mineral containing arsenic

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Arsenopyrite (FeAsS)

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