DIAGNOSTIC PROPERTIES Flashcards
Fluorite main identifier
purple fluorese
fluorites streak
white
fluorites hardness
4
bornites nickname
“peacock ore”
bornites streak
grey - black
Halite taste
salt
Halite hardness
2.5
Sylvite taste
bitter
Sylvite hardness
1.5 - 2
scheelite fracture
conchoidal to uneven?
scheelite streak
white to light yellow
scheelite colour
bright orang,e yellow, brown, tan. (ocassionaly others) therefore not diagnostic
apatite streak
white
apatite colour
it is transparent with vibrant colour
apatites lustre
vitreous to subresenous
copper colour
copper with greenish blue tarnish
copper lustre
metallic
copper specific gravity
8.9
sulfur streak
yellow
sulfur colour
yellow (brownish to greenish yellow range)
Sulfur hardness
1.5 - 2.5
Sulfur specific gravity
2.0 ish
sulfur scent
bad
graphite cleavage
1 perfect cleavage plane
graphite lustre
metallic sometimes submetallic / earthy
graphite hardness
1 - 2
gold colour
golden yellow
gold hardness
2.5 to 3
gold specific gravity
19.3 when pure
galena cleavage
perfect at 3 right angles
galena colour
bright silver with metallic lustre
galena specific gravity
7.4 to 7.6
sphalerite main identifier
fire rock through hand lens due to 6 perfect cleavage planes
sphalerite lustre
nonmetallic, submetallic, resinous
sphalerite streak
white to yellowish brown
cinnabar colour
bright red to brownish red
cinnabar specific gravity
8 to 8.2
cinnabar main identifier
in a bag
molybdenite colour
bluish grey to silbver
molybdenite lustre
metallic
molybdenite hardness
1 - 2
cracked jolly rancher
apatite
minecraft salt
halite
minecraft himilayan salt
sylvite
flakey metallic fish scale
molybdenite
covellite hardness
1.5 to 2