Minerals By: Devyn Howard

flourite Flourite is a mineral consisting of calcium flouride that typically occurs as cubic crystals, colorless when pure but often colored by Imperities. It is used in toothpaste mainly.

copper Copper is a chemical element with symbol CU and atomic number 29. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a reddish-orange color.Its usally used for pennys.

diamond Diamond is a rare and complex mineral, it is the rarest mineral. Its used a lot of the time for jewlery, and often tends to be very exspensive. It has the highest rate for hardness (10).

jasper Jasper is ussally considerd as Chalcedony, so you may know it as that. It is normanally put in the group of Quartz because of its grainly structure. Jasper is rare, ussally it is striped or flamed with reds, browns, and sometimes black.

Aquamarine Aquamarine is named in such of because its seawater color. It is a pale, medium blue. It is probably the most favortive gem right now because people like it for its color and its cristilline structure.

graphite Graphite is a cristilline form of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and one of the allotropes of carbon. Graphite is the most stable form of carbon under standerd conditions. You’ve probably seen the most as led in a pencil.

talc Talc is the softest mineral, it can be crushed with a bare hand. It is in a lot of everyday items such as most cosmetics, baby powders, paint, foot powders, and first aid powders. Talc is a powder white color.

garnet Garnet is extevently used as a gem. The most common color of a garnet is red, and is toned with brown, yellow, and vielot. If you were born in January than your gemstone is Garnet.

Rose quartz Rose Quartz is named after its pale pink color. Rose Quartz is often crackled or turbid. It also has a triangular shape.

ruby Ruby is a pink to dark red gem. It is a rough stone and has a very greasy luster. The red color is caused by chromium, and in case of brownish tones due to iron.