Geo Test 1

Front 1

pyrite

Back 1

fools gold; hard; metallic

Front 2

chalcopyrite

Back 2

brassy, bigger than fools gold, metallic

Front 3

galena

Back 3

silvery-gray, high specific gravity, metallic

Front 4

magnetite

Back 4

magnetic, hard, metallic

Front 5

bornite

Back 5

peacock ore, medium, metallic

Front 6

hematite

Back 6

red-brown but mostly grey! medium-hard, metallic

Front 7

azurite

Back 7

dark dark blue crystals, medium, earthy

Front 8

chrysocolla

Back 8

light blue and green (marbly/swirly looking), medium-hard, earthy

Front 9

malachite

Back 9

DARK DARK green, hard, earthy

Front 10

talc

Back 10

feels soapy, soft, earthy, white, glassy

Front 11

gypsum

Back 11

soft, flattened, sheer/pearly, glassy

Front 12

calcite

Back 12

reacts with acid, three distinct planes of cleavage at 60 degrees, rhombic rectangle, sheer/pearly, glassy

Front 13

halite

Back 13

salty tasting, three distinct planes of cleave at 90 degrees, sheer/pearly, cube-like, glassy

Front 14

fluorite

Back 14

Many, many diff colors (most-likely clear), looks almost like quartz but not as crystally and very foggy/faded looking, 3 planes of cleavage, glassy

Front 15

quartz

Back 15

six-sided, hard, many different colors, glassy

Front 16

muscovite

Back 16

thin, one plane of cleavage, clear/tan/pearly, glassy

Front 17

biotite

Back 17

one plane of cleavage, thin and black, glassy

Front 18

k-spar

Back 18

exsolution bands (veiny), flat, tan/red, glassy

Front 19

amazonite

Back 19

exsolution bands (veiny), flat and green/brown, glassy

Front 20

plagioclase

Back 20

striations, white/sheer/grayish, glassy

Front 21

hornblende

Back 21

almost metallic gray/black and dark, fibrous-looking, glassy (prob going to be big)

Front 22

hematite (earthy)

Back 22

red-brownish, no cleavage, earthy

Front 23

limonite

Back 23

mustard-brown, earthy

Front 24

realgar

Back 24

bright red/orange/yellow and gray streaks, earthy

Front 25

sulfur

Back 25

yellow! earthy

Front 26

garnet

Back 26

purple-ish w/ green and gray (can be multiple colors from white/pearl 2 red), 12-sided crystal, glassy

Front 27

apatite

Back 27

green/sheer, 6-sided crystal, glassy

Front 28

corundum

Back 28

reddish-brown, 6-sided crystal, glassy

Front 29

vanadenite

Back 29

small orange sugar cookie crystals, big, glassy

Front 30

wulfenite

Back 30

blade-like orange crystals sticking out of rock at random place, dull red-brown, glassy

Front 31

epidote

Back 31

dull mossy greenish w/ flecks making it looked "freckled", no cleavage, glassy

Front 32

olivine

Back 32

bright green sugar cookie ish crystals on purple-grey, no cleavage, glassy

Front 33

micas:

Back 33

glassy, muscovite, biotite ONE PLANE OF CLEAVAGE SO FLAT

Front 34

feldspars

Back 34

glassy, k-spar, amazonite, plagioclase EXSOULTION BANDS AND STRIATIONS

Front 35

amphibole

Back 35

glassy, hornblende FIBEROUS

Front 36

gems

Back 36

glassy, garnet, apatite, corundum HAVE CRYSTAL FORM NOT CLEAVAGE!!!!

Front 37

glassy (orange)

Back 37

vanadenite, wulfenite BOTH HAVE WEIRD CRYSTALS

Front 38

glassy (green)

Back 38

epidote, olivine BOTH HAVE WEIRD CRYSTALS

Front 39

earthy:

Back 39

hematite, limonite, realgar, sulfur, azurite, chrysocolla, malachite

Front 40

glassy:

Back 40

talc (soapy), gypsum (flat, one plane of cleavage) (BOTH SOFT), calcite (react w/ acid, 60 degree), halite (salty, 90 degree), fluorite (octahedral cleavage, meaning 4 planes, and is medium), quartz (hexagonal crystal form, six sided, and is hard)

Front 41

metallic:

Back 41

pyrite (HARD), chalcopyrite (both GOLD/BRASSY), galena (HEAVY, 90 degree cleavage), magnetite (MAGNETIC), bornite (PEACOCK...), hematite (RED-BROWN STREAK!!!)