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MINERAL FEATURES
HABIT STREAK
COLOR OF MINERAL COLOR OF STREAK
Kunzite with
prismatic habit Yellow Golden-
orpiment yellow
Silver with
twisted wire Brown
habit haematite Red-
brown
TWISTED WIRE HABIT Red-brown
crocoite Yellow
Gold Black
chalcopyrite
PRISMATIC HABIT
Black-red Red
cinnabar
Wollastonite with
fibrous habit Silver Gray
molybdenite
Haematite with
tabular habit
(flattened structure)
COLOR
Rose-colored
crystal of rose
TABULAR HABIT
quartz
FIBROUS HABIT
ROSE, PINK
Translucent
white-gray
Chalcedony with crystal of
botryoidal habit milky quartz WHITE-GRAY
(like a bunch
of grapes)
Translucent
crystal of orange
citrine
Carnallite Transparent
with massive glassy crystal
habit (no of rock crystal
definite shape)
BOTRYOIDAL HABIT MASSIVE HABIT ORANGE BEIGE, TRANSPARENT
MOHS SCALE OF HARDNESS
TALC GYPSUM CALCITE FLUORITE APATITE ORTHOCLASE QUARTZ TOPAZ CORUNDUM DIAMOND
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