After you watch the Identifying Minerals video, you will want to test your skills at identifying minerals. Be sure to download the Mineral Identification Chart to help.
The questions are chosen randomly, so this quest will be different each time you reload the page.
Properties for this mineral:
- Color: clear
- Luster: vitreous
- Streak: none
- Hardness: scratches glass
- It breaks with: conchoidal fracture
When you have compared these properties with the ID Chart, and think you know the answer, click here.
This is the mineral quartz.
Properties for this mineral:
- Color: white
- Luster: dull
- Streak: white
- Hardness: scratched by penny and scratches penny
- It breaks with: cleavage in one direction
- Special: feels heavy for its size
When you have compared these properties with the ID Chart, and think you know the answer, click here.
This is the mineral barite.
Properties for this mineral:
- Color: white
- Luster: weathered, so you can't tell
- Streak: none
- Hardness: scratches glass
- It breaks with: conchoidal fracture
When you have compared these properties with the ID Chart, and think you know the answer, click here.
This is the mineral quartz.
Properties for this mineral:
- Color: silver
- Luster: metallic
- Streak: black
- Hardness: scratched by penny
- It breaks with: cleavage in three directions - cubes
When you have compared these properties with the ID Chart, and think you know the answer, click here.
This is the mineral galena.
Properties for this mineral:
- Color: white, gray, clear
- Luster: vitreous
- Streak: white
- Hardness: scratched by fingernail
- It breaks with: perfect cleavage in one direction
- Special: Easily breaks into thin sheets
When you have compared these properties with the ID Chart, and think you know the answer, click here.
This is the mineral muscovite.
The questions are chosen randomly, so this quest will be different each time you reload the page.