Mineral Properties
This scale measures mineral hardness.
What is the Moh's Scale?
This is type of bond involves the transfer of valence electrons.
What is an ionic bond?
This mineral is the hardest known natural material.
What is diamond?
The main ore of aluminum.
What is bauxite?
Quartz, feldspar, calcite, plastic.
What is plastic? (Not a mineral)
The color of a mineral’s powder.
What is the streak?
This bond is a weak, electrostatic bond that holds sheets together in graphite.
What is a Van Der Waals bond?
A red variety of corundum.
What is ruby?
Hematite and magnetite are ores of this metal.
What is iron?
Pyrite, gold, graphite, halite.
What is halite? (Not metallic)
A mineral that breaks with smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
This bond is a polar solvent.
What are hydrogen bonds?
This green mineral is often mistaken for jade but is a variety of beryl.
What is emerald?
Galena is the primary ore of this metal.
What is lead?
Diamond, graphite, quartz, coal.
What is coal? (Not a mineral)
The tendency of some minerals to glow under UV light.
What is fluorescence?
This bond is favored by minerals that where electrons roam freely.
What are metallic bonds?
This blue mineral, used as a pigment, was once more valuable than gold.
What is lapis lazuli?
Chalcopyrite is the most important ore of this metal.
What is copper?
Bauxite, kaolinite, muscovite, fluorite.
What is fluorite? (Not an aluminum ore or clay mineral)
This property refers to how light reflects from a mineral’s surface.
What is luster?
This bond plays well with others and likes to share valence electrons.
What are covalent bonds?
The primary mineral in limestone and marble.
What is calcite?
This green mineral is a copper carbonate hydroxide, and a minor ore of copper.
What is malachite?
Olivine, garnet, mica, amphibole.
What is mica? (Sheet silicate; others are different silicate groups)