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Activities to Examine the Appearance of Minerals

A variety of tensile strengths and physical traits represented.

Good grade, green, massive; copper ore.

Red, classic oolitic texture.

Nearly pure, green crystalline forsterite.

Pure, bright yellow, Frasch sulfur.

Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.

Brown, earthy, massive; used for yellow pigment.

Black, Micaceous, glittery metallic.

White, fine, massive, opaque to slightly translucent.