Easily Confused Minerals

Differences between some of the minerals that are often confused.

[@netyote]

Thanks a lot for this video! If you ever do another like it, you might address how calcite and halite can be confused.

[@StoptheLie]

This was an excellent explanation of minerals etc.

[@richardcarew2481]

Good job sir... very clear, concise explanations... you might want to mention the Moh's scale of hardness... it is the primary test for mineral identification

[@ballisticcoefficientdepend9811]

I'm new to minerals, and I've found some incredible specimens (at least for me). Unfortunately, I went out many days in a row, and I brought home bag after bag of minerals. Of course I was looking for crystals, and I did find many fine specimens (nothing like pointed quartz or anything), then I learned a little bit about agate, and began bringing home everything I found. I made the mistake of not learning about minerals before collecting them. So I'm stuck trying to identify hundreds of minerals with almost no knowledge of them, now I'm trying to catch up, I'm really in a predicament! I also have no real tools for this, like a rock tumbler, all I have is a hand held rotary tool. I'm pre 101 in minerals, but I'm trying, thanks for the video!

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[@michswags]

THIS cleared something up for me...loved it....Thanks!!

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[@beardman8322]

thanks for this video, you cleared a few things up for me that my mind was having a hard time grasping, you explain very well, wish i would have stumbled upon this video long ago!

[@GeologyofGemsMinerals]

Some incorrect information in here.. Both amphibole and pyroxene can be many different colours. Amphibole cleavage is 56 and 124 degrees. Glass is made using quartz not from quartz; glass is actually amorphous. Muscovite has a white sheen - it used to be called white mica. Phlogopite can be pale brown but with yellow sheen. Brown mica is not diagnostic of muscovite.

[@usmankundala6837]

Beautiful..

[@oportillo02]

Superb!

[@angelamolnarpemberton5145]

What is cleavage in crystals mean?

[@sumukhmurthy124]

Great Video, but please use a 1080p camera so we can see the textures on the rocks

[@bornagainluis]

Supersumukh M this was in 2011 lol

[@sumukhmurthy124]

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[@ludmilakotovski1837]

When I learnt these minerals, the "Ch" in Chalcopyrite was pronounced as "ch" in "church"! Perhaps it depends on your location!

[@darrylfernandes4806]

I can't hear you say please be a bit louder and clearer thank you

[@mikelong9638]

Great straight forward video. Great samples.

[@sherriefredericks824]

Great video! Very clear explanation of all the different types of the stones and individual classes a stone!

[@erwineichmann6959]

I wish you were still uploading

[@kickapootrackers7255]

Thanks bro👊

[@JPseagull72]

That big slab of brown Mica is impressive. I have lots of sizes of Mica but if I found one that size, I think I'd have to sit down catch my breath for a moment. :D

[@ludmilakotovski1837]

Jenn P If you find that big slab of brown mica is impressive, then phlogopite, which can be an indicator for diamonds, will smother you with wonder! It is more of a copper colour and, as you turn it around, fire seems to leap out of it on its cleavage!!

[@Nickthepunk22]

Great vid. I could never tell gypsum, fluorite or halite apart.

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[@decadefacade]

Great video thank you

[@erdwaenor]

Quartz will react with acid too, provide it is hydrofluoric acid. Must specify which acid being used. Thanks for the video.

[@tyleratkinson4354]

Did you mean calcite?

[@erdwaenor]

@@tyleratkinson4354 No. But I've picked Quartz as a simple example because it's one of the most common Rock Forming Minerals of the Earth's Crust, in Geology, Quartz mineral being a semehow more 'pure' form of syllicate (Quartz formula: SiO2). Sillicates are a very large group of minerals which are often dissolved, in geology related laboratories, with Hydrofluoridric Acid. Carbonates (which Calcite is a common example mineral) are often dissolved with Hydrochloridric Acid. And Salts (for example, Halite mineral, which sometimes may form rock layers) may be dissolved, I guess, with Water.

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[@paulettestokes1727]

Thanks,good info.

[@kevingilmore7792]

I have a couple Stones not too sure what they are when you look at them you think it's black but it's really Brown

[@hardtimez6939]

What are you referring to when you talk about cleavage??

[@majorkonfuzion1007]

thanks ! good , now i know i have a transparent calcite Rhombohedral piece,

[@diegosolis5545]

Totally watched this before my lab!

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[@mrgguttman]

Hi Netyote, Calcite will cleave into Rhombohedrons and also effervesces readily when Hydrochloric Acid is applied to the specimen. Halite,is naturally forming Sodium Chloride (table salt) and forms in cubes. They are both either clear or cloudy white with obvious cleavages.

[@ZackXa]

Nice video, but everytime you make a s sound the whistle hurts my ears lol

[@karthis3378]

thankyou sir

[@silkwurth]

My teacher sent us here.

[@frankreiserm.s.8039]

calcopyrite is often associated with quartz, usually milky or clear quartz.

[@ludmilakotovski1837]

Frank Reiser M.S. In Australia, we pronounce this as CHALCOPYRITE!

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Great video, thank you very much.

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[@rockcrazygal5166]

Thank you! Very informative!

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[@mineralstones5161]

which one contains daimond ?

[@TsumeKyuudefunct]

I dont think any of them have diamond, if youre asking because of the shiny bits in some rocks, thats mainly quartz and other minerals

[@michaelraiwet]

Best video ever!

[@TheBluemnky13]

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[@tabiral]

not in focus!