Use a table of physical properties to classify minerals SPI 0707.7.1

Links verified 5/1/2024

1. Earth Science Lab - mineral physical properties and identification, 20 minerals to identify 
2. Gem and Mineral collection from the Smithsonian. Almost four dozen of the most beautiful naturally occurring minerals or polished gemstones from the collection.
3. Gemstone Gallery offers good information about the mineral to accompany excellent pictures.
4. Gemstone Index - an alphabetical listing, you can also search by color or by birthstone
5. How are Diamonds Made and Formed - from a website on buying diamonds
6. How to Identify Minerals - from the San Diego Natural History Museum
7. Identification of an Unknown Mineral - a step by step process 
8. Identifying Minerals - mineral properties and terms explained
9. Mineral Classification - explanation of three main ways to classify minerals
10. Mineral Classification - (14:21) a YouTube video fromn Kelli's Geology Lair
11. Mineral Identification - a McGraw-Hill self checking quiz - nine multiple-choice questions
12. Mineral Identification Key - use this process to identify a mineral [this site may exceed their bandwidth from time to time]
13. Mineral Identification quiz - testing Moh's Hardness Scale
14. Mindat.org is the largest mineral database on the internet. Currently there are 11,185 different minerals, varieties and synonyms listed, and information on 159,326 mineral occurrences worldwide, from 29,868 different sites.
15. The Mineral Gallery - A service of Amethyst Galleries,Inc., "The First Internet Rock Shop"
16. TheImage.com offers their own Mineral Gallery with good information about the mineral to accompany the picture.
17. Mineralogy Database in HTML Format. This mineral database contains more than 5,000 pages of mineral data. There are 3,968 individual mineral species descriptions with links

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