Assignment: Rock Forming Minerals

For this assessment, you will be identifying various minerals. You will use the information you learned in this module to complete the chart below. Remember to access the tips and hints below.

Basic Requirements (assignment criteria):

  1. You will need to use the mineral identification chart provided to help identify these minerals.
  2. The mineral identification chart has different tabs for the different mineral classifications. These tabs are located at the bottom and are listed: Metallic Minerals, Nonmetallic Minerals Dark and Nonmetallic Minerals Light.
  3. Complete the various columns for each mineral and answer the questions at the end of the document.
  4. You will ONLY submit the completed chart and responses to the questions, not the entire document.
  5. Make sure your name is on the document before saving.

Tips and hints can be found here (Links to an external site.).

 

Mineral #1

A translucent mineral

 

Mineral #2

A shiny, dark gray mineral

 

Mineral #3

 

This mineral is not shiny, does not appear to have any streaks, and is a light brownish pink

Mineral #4

A translucent mineral with straight cleavage marks

Mineral #5

Thin sheets of a translucent, shiny mineral

 

Mineral #6

 

A clouded, semi-translucent mineral

Mineral #7

A rough-textured, uniformly light colored mineral

 

Mineral #8

A translucent, cubed mineral

 

Mineral #9

A dark mineral with a rough texture and light flecks. It is irregularly shaped.

 

Mineral #10

A dark, slightly shiny mineral with straight sides and straight cleavage marks

 

 

A dark, rough-textured mineral with two sets of straight cleavage marks separate by a jagged slice.

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