MINERAL IDENTIFICATION KEY

I. METALLIC LUSTER, STREAK COLORED

C—color H—hardness Remarks Name and

S—streak Cl—cleavage composition

F—fracture

A. Hardness not more than 2.5

C—lead gray H—2.5 Very heavy; occurs as Galena (31)

S—black Cl—cubic; crystals, grains, or PbS

perfect in 3 masses; easily

directions identified by color and

F—subconchoidal cleavage

or even

C—copper red H—2.5 Very heavy; apt to have Native copper

S—metallic, Cl—none green coating; distorted Cu

shiny F—jagged or wirelike forms;

malleable

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