Mineral Identification
How to Identify Minerals
A practical introduction to hardness, streak, luster, cleavage, magnetism, acid reaction, and other diagnostic mineral properties.
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Practical guides for understanding minerals, rocks, ore deposits, alteration, field geology, and geological interpretation.
Field & Mineralogy
Learn how geologists observe, test, and interpret geological materials using practical field methods.
Mineral Identification
A practical introduction to hardness, streak, luster, cleavage, magnetism, acid reaction, and other diagnostic mineral properties.
Read Guide →Mineralogy
Learn why crystal structure and chemistry control properties such as hardness, cleavage, density, and luster.
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Develop a systematic approach to observing lithology, textures, structures, alteration, and mineralization.
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Explore how geological processes concentrate metals into mineral deposits and how geologists search for them.
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