Mineral Identification

So far the mineral you are identifying is a light colored non-metallic mineral with a hardness greater than 5 that exihibits fracture.

You now have enough information to begin identifying your mineral. The chart below contains all common rock forming minerals that have the specific properties you have described. To identify you mineral read through the following descriptions and determine which mineral best matches your sample

Hardness	Description	Name	Additional Data
6	Orange, brown, white, gray, green or pink. Cleavge in 2 planes at nearly right angles. Exsolution lamellae	Potassium Feldspar
7	white Greasy luster massive or hexagonal prisms transparent-translucent	Milky Quartz
7	Gray-brown Greasy luster massive or hexagonal prisms transparent-translucent	Smoky Quartz
7	Yellow Greasy luster massive or hexagonal prisms transparent-translucent	Citrine
7	pink Greasy luster massive or hexagonal prisms transparent-translucent	Rose Quartz
7	Colorless Greasy luster massive or hexagonal prisms transparent-translucent	Quartz
7	Opaque gray or white waxy luster Conchoidal fracture	Chert
7	Pale olive green. Conchoidal fracture. Transparent or translucent.	Olivine
7	Colorless, white, yellow, light brown. Translucent opaque. Laminated or massive. Cryptocrystalline.	Chalcedony
9	Opaque red, gray or white hexagonal prisms with striated flat ends	Corrundum