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Mineral Groups
Mineral Properties
Mining
Reaction Series
Mineral Facts
100
I'm gold (Au) and I belong to this mineral group
What are the native minerals?
100
This is the least useful property to describe minerals. It the light reflected by minerals back to our eyes.
What is color?
100
This type of mining involves the use of dynamite to extract coal deposits at a high elevation
What is mountaintop removal mining?
100
This mineral is located at the highest temperature of the reaction series?
What is olivine?
100
This mineral will react with hydrochloric acid
What is calcite?
200
I'm salt (NaCl) and I belong to this mineral group
What is the halide group?
200
Metallic and nonmetallic represent two main categories to describe this diagnostic property
What is luster?
200
This type of mining tends to be more hazardous to a miner's health and it's also known as shaft mining
What is subsurface mining?
200
Minerals such as quartz and Mica have more of these elements in the reaction series?
What is aluminum and silica?
200
This mineral exhibits a reddish-brownish streak?
What is hematite?
300
Hematite in this mineral group is iron ore (FE2O3)
What is the oxide group?
300
Minerals break along jagged edges exhibit this property.
What is fracture?
300
This type of mining involves extracting the overburden by excavating mineral beds parallel to each other
What is strip mining?
300
These rock types contain contain olivine and pyroxene at the top of the reaction series
What are basalt and gabbro?
300
This mineral gave rise to the diagnostic property fluorescence
What is fluorite?
400
Don't be fooled into buying fool's gold Pyrite (FeS2) in this mineral group.
What is the sulfide group?
400
A mineral that scratches easily is said to exhibit this property
What is hardness?
400
This type of mining involves the excavating of the ground straight down in stair step fashion
What is open pit mining?
400
These minerals will contain more sodium plagioclase than calcium plagioclase.
What is Biotite and Feldspar?
400
This mineral exhibits double refraction
What is calcite?
500
The mineral calcite (CaCO3) belongs to this mineral group.
What is the carbonates group?
500
My mineral splits along smooth surfaces and exhibits this diagnostic property
What is cleavage?
500
This process involves the extraction and separation of valuable minerals such as iron from other minerals using a bloomery furnace?
What is smelting?
500
Minerals such as olivine and pyroxene have more of these elements at the top of the reaction series
What are iron and magnesium?
500
This mineral has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale
What is corundum?