Mineral Identification

Owen Hopkins shows how to identify various minerals using their unique physical properties.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ccgeology
• geology
• cc geology
• owen hopkins
• geo
• geo science
• science
• education
• mineral
• minerals
• mineral identification
• streak
• streak test
• pyrite
• fools gold
• hematite
• quartz
• tiger eye
• micah
• azurite
• calcite
• cleavage
• chalcopyrite
• galena
• lead
• fluorite
• garnet
• selenite rose

[CCGeology]

Drinking milk is better nutrition for their bodies than soft, sweet drinks--that is my main point. I also think it is fun for kids to know they ingesting the element calcium with their milk, cheese, ice cream, broccoli, etc.

I also ask kids if they are rock-eaters. Most say no. Then I shake some table salt on their hands "look real close, what do you see?". They see small cubes -- "those tiny cubes are the mineral Halite-- or salt. So "if you put salt on your food, you

are a rock-eater!".

[CCGeology]

by your description, it probably is iron ore

[CCGeology]

i have had this video edited -- mica, calcite rhombs, lead sulphate, calcium is in the mineral hydroxyapatite for the mineral of teeth--i tell the teachers to use sandpaper for the streak test or i tell them to send their kids to the sidewalk to streak their minerals on the concrete sidewalk--this works fine for the basic minerals--streak plates cost money-- Thanks to Mstreman53 who suggested i make some changes

[Mstreman53]

Sorry if I don't fawn but there are almost too many errors in this video to cover--Mica not Myca, Rhombs are cleavage planes, not crystals, sand paper is not used in streak testing and apatie is the mineral of the teeth... Galena is lead sulfate not lead. The orange calcite has been acid washed that is not a crystal surface. USE this video with caution.

[CCGeology]

thanks for commenting on my video-- i have made the basic changes-- i still recommend teachers to use sandpaper or a sidewalk--works fine for common minerals and it has no cost and the students can prove to their friends that they have pyrite and not gold by scratching on a convenient sidewalk

[rspringsgal]

Way fun to watch and informative as well. Thank you!

[TheKingster95]

this is rllllllllllly good :D..thnk you so much :D

[lulucaty2406]

wow nice

[MrToxicheyna7]

@stuckurface can you possibly take a good quality video of it? i also have a metallic looking rock that I've also found in caves up in North Carolina.

[maxwill445]

lol cleavage XD lol

[stuckurface]

PLEASE HELP! I found this metallic rock on my road (which is dirt) and I have searched for years on what it is and I have found nothing that matched

[JDeav05]

Thank you for the video! Much easier to understand than my current Earth Science professor!

[zaaz369]

galena is my fave :)

[CharlieMoher]

pump up the volume....some of us are on laptops

[pringlewrangler]

chocolate truffles!

[rufiyagiou]

thanks for this..do you have video about importance of minerals?

[nessie4oc]

woah, all those minerals must be expensive! but there really pretty :)