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Minerals
Justin Rule, Jenna Gordon, Steven Weber
Amphibole (Hornblende)
 Cleavage, colour
 Decoration
Apatite
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Colour, crystal shape, hardness
Fertilizer
Asbestos
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Fibrous, colour, waxy lustre.
Used in insulation, proven to lead to lung cancer
Azurite
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Colour
Decoration, gemstones
Bornite
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Colour
Ore of copper
Calcite
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Acid reactivity
Antacid
Chalcopyrite
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Colour, streak, softer than pyrite
Ore of copper
Chlorite
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Colour, hardness
Construction filler, very few practical uses
Feldspar (plagioclase)
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Cleavage
Decoration
Feldspar (Orthoclase)
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Cleavage, colour
Gemstones
Fluorite:
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Has a glassy luster and makes cube like crystals and 4 excellent, octahedral.
Fluorite is used instead of glass in some high performance telescopes and camera lens elements.
Galena:
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Color is lead-gray, has cubes or massive and 3 perfect at 90° cleavage.
Galena is the most important ore of lead. Silver is often produced as a by-product.
Garnet:
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It’s a glassy lustre, 12 or 24 faced crystals and has a hardness of 7.
Garnet uses include: gemstone, sand paper.
Gold:
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It has a Gold yellow color, streak that is yellow, and crystal form of flakes, grains, massive
Most of the gold that is newly consumed or recycled each year is used in the production of
jewelry.
Graphite
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Graphite has a metallic lustre and a silver colour.
Pencil lead, oil, lubricant. Or lead ores.
Gypsum
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Clear or white minerals with a glassy or vitreous lustre.
Used as drywall.
Halite
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White or Colourless and a vitreous lustre
Table salt, tanning.
Hematite
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Limonite
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metallic silver lustre and a and earthy
Iron ore
A brown to yellow colour and a earthy tone
Iron ore
Magnetite
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Matallic lustre and a black colour
Is one of the minerals that make up a iron ore.
Is one of the only magnetic minerals.
Malachite
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Malachite has a vibrant green colour with a pearly look.
Is a copper ore, which makes its uses far more advanced
Mica
Muscovite
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Biotite
Muscovite has a white/pink even a translucent colour and a glassy/vitreous lustre
Biotite has a silver/black colour and a metallic/glassy lustre
Mica can be used as a insulator for high voltage electrical work
Muscovite can also used as a see through glass type in high heat machines
Molybdenite
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Molybdenite has a bluish silver look with a metallic lustre and a flaky form
Molybdenite is the only mineral that makes a molybdenum ore. The ore can be made into a
lubricant
Olivine
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Olivine is named after its olive green colour. It has a vitreous lustre and white streak.
Olivine is commonly used in jewellery, brinks, and refractory sand.
Pyrite
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Pyrite has a brassy yellow colour and a metallic lustre. It has a cubic crystal form as well.
The creating of a chemical for the paper industry and a acid for the chemical industry. Although it
as a iron ore because of the acid it makes it useless in most businesses
Pyroxene (augite)
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Pyroxene has a dark green to black colour with a vitreous lustre.
Pyroxene is used to manufacture for lithium salts and glasses.
Pyrrhotite
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Pyrrhotite has a bronze and yellow look with a black streak and a metallic lustre
Pyrrhotite is commonly used as a iron ore
Quartz Family
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The quartz has a arrangement of colours and a vitreous lustre and can have a prismatic crystals.
Most commonly used as a gemstones in jewellery.
Sphalerite
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Sphalerite has a brown/yellow colouring with a metallic and resinous lustre
Its main uses were that it has a zinc ore.
Talc
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Talc has a pearly white colouring and a waxy lustre; it is also a very soft mineral.
Talc is most commonly used in paint.
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