Mineral color and streak
GEO Podcast
English - January 29, 2020 10:00 - 10 minutes - 7.05 MBEarth Sciences Science Education geology geoscience earthscience scienceeducation earthscienceeducation scienceteaching Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, I talk about mineral color and streak as ways to identify minerals in your collection. The big take away from this episode is that color alone is not a good way to ID minerals and that using streak (the color of the powdered mineral) is a better ID tool.
For the full notes and links to streak plates, go to www.geoetc.com/episode3