Field book of common rocks and minerals : $b for identifying the rocks and minerals of the United States and interpreting their origins and meaningsLoomis, Frederic Brewster
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Field book of common rocks and minerals : $b for identifying the rocks and minerals of the United States and interpreting their origins and meanings
Loomis, Frederic Brewster
Minerals -- United States; Rocks -- United States
bluish tarnish
2.5 shining coppery red color copper
sulphur 3.5 white to compact masses pyromorphite
yellowish
2 yellow sulphur
1-3 earthy masses carnotite
Brown
violet 1½ shining tarnishes black cerargyrite
yellowish 7.5 white 4-sided prisms zircon
6.5 gray cassiterite
5.5 ochre yellow compact to earthy limonite
masses
5 brownish-yellow goethite
4.5 black wolframite
3.5 yellowish-brown sphalerite
3.5 white siderite
grayish 7.5 white often twinned staurolite
6.5 pale brown rutile
3.5 white to earthy masses pyromorphite
yellowish
reddish 7 white dodecahedrons & garnet
trapezohedrons
Black 6.5 gray cassiterite
6 reddish-brown franklinite
6 black magnetic magnetite
5.5 dark brown chromite
5.5 black yellow precipitate wolframite
in sulphuric acid
5-6 black non-magnetic ilmenite
5-6 brownish-black compact masses psilomelane
5 brownish-yellow surface often goethite
brownish
3.5 dark brown tetrahedrons tetrahedrite
2.5 silvery fresh surfaces silver
silver color
2.5 scarlet fresh surfaces prousite
bright red
2.5 purplish red fresh surfaces red pyrargyrite
2 black earthy masses pyrolusite
1 steel gray greasy feel graphite
Metallic 2.5 black tarnishes black, chalcocite
Gray bluish, or green
2.5 lead gray sectile argentite
2.5 lead gray cubic cleavage galena
2 lead gray long prismatic stibnite
crystals
1.5 bluish gray in scales molybdenite
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