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glassy,clear harder than glass, concoidal fracture,no cleavage

quartz/clear quartz

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glassey pink no cleavage concoidal fracture

rose quartz

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nonmetalic glassey, pale grey, concoidal fracture

smokey quartz

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non-metalic glassey,cloudy white, concoidal fracture,

milky quartz

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porcelanious, clay red, 2 planes of clavage at 90. can be aggregate,

microcline

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porcelanious pink to beige, 2 planes of cleavage at 90.

orthoclase

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glassey, colorless, 1 plane, small and in volcanic rock

Sanidine

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Porcelanious, salmon, 2 planes at 90 degrees, exsoluion lamellia.

Perthite

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Porcelanious, ligh greyish white, 1 plane of cleavage stratiations parallel to cleavage

Albite oligoclase

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Porcelanious, blue-grey, 1 plane cleavage, like like a aggregate kinda

Andesine

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glassey, grey/iridecent, 1 plane, stratiations

Labradorite

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glassey, grey, 1 plane of cleavage, aggregate, stratiations

Bytownite

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porcelanious, light grey/white,

anorthite

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Perly, black, harder than finernail, softer than glass, 1 plane, flakey

Biotite

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Perly, silvery grey, less than fingernail, 1 plane of cleavage, flakey.

Muscovite

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Pearly, white oyster, softer than fingernail soapy, 1 plane cleavage,

Talc

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Waxy, muddled green,softer than glass, harder than fingernail, 1 plane cleavage

Serpentine

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pearly, silvery green, softer than glass, harder then penny

Chlorite

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dull white chalky, powdery

Kaolanite