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Mineral
Formation
The Earth’s crust is made up of two
things:
• Minerals and Rocks
Coal
Gneiss
Scoria
Rocks are
combinations
Minerals are
of minerals
individual crystals
***You should see lots of different
of all the same stuff minerals in every single rock
Main Concept: Minerals are the
What is a mineral?
building blocks of rocks!
“Intrusive” Cooling:
Magma cools slowly
(Long Time = Large Crystals)
Minerals Crystal Size
When the hot material cools fast, it has
smaller crystal size. When it cools
slowly, it has large crystals.
Granite Rhyolite
Streak: Is the color of the minerals powder when dragged across a surface.
Color: Every mineral has some natural color…ex: Gold, Blue, Clear…
Etc: There are many other types of properties we use but these are the big ones
Special Properties
• Some minerals display strange properties.
• These can include: Magnetism, fluorescence, and reactivity.
Fizzing!