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Represented By:-Name: Lalit Goyal & Gaurav Varshney Course: B.Tech (Ce), Sem: Iv ENROLL. NO.: 20160703 & 20160346

The document summarizes key physical properties of minerals including color, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, and luster. It then discusses specific examples like quartz having variable color due to impurities. The document also lists common minerals and their uses in everyday products and applications like construction, transportation, consumer goods, and more. Key minerals mentioned include aggregates, aluminum, basalt, barium, clays, and cement.

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Represented By:-Name: Lalit Goyal & Gaurav Varshney Course: B.Tech (Ce), Sem: Iv ENROLL. NO.: 20160703 & 20160346

The document summarizes key physical properties of minerals including color, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, and luster. It then discusses specific examples like quartz having variable color due to impurities. The document also lists common minerals and their uses in everyday products and applications like construction, transportation, consumer goods, and more. Key minerals mentioned include aggregates, aluminum, basalt, barium, clays, and cement.

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REPRESENTED BY :-

NAME : LALIT GOYAL & GAURAV VARSHNEY


COURSE : B.TECH (CE), SEM : IVth
ENROLL. NO. : 20160703 & 20160346
 Color
 Streak
 Hardness
 Cleavage
 Fracture
 Luster
 1. Colour
◦ First impression
◦ It’s colour which depends upon
absorption of light
• Quartz crystal have variable
colour.
• Reasons can be presence of
inpurities.

 Purple Amethyst
 2. Streak
◦ The TRUE color of a mineral
◦ Color of a mineral’s powder
◦ The streak of a mineral can be obtain
by rubbing Minerals.
 3. Hardness

◦ It is the most important physical


properties of a mineral.

◦ If a mineral can’t be scratch by


knife blade, But can be
scratched by quartz, Then it’s
Hardness is b/w 5&7 On Mohs
scale.
 Talc Softest
 Gypsum
 Calcite
 Fluorite
 Apatite
 Potassium feldspar
 Quartz
 Topaz
 Corundum
 Diamond
Hardest
 4. Cleavage
◦ Not all minerals have
cleavage.
◦ The number of lines
that are created when a
mineral is split will be
the number of
cleavage line.
◦ It create smooth
repeating surfaces that
are visible both in the
microscope .
 5. Fracture
◦ Breaks irregularly, jagged edges.
◦ Fracture is a description of the
way a mineral tends to break.
 6. Luster

◦ Luster is only a useful form of mineral


identification

◦ How light shines off a mineral.

◦ It’s denote type and amount of light


reflecting from the surface of mineral.
 Metallic  Nonmetallic
 Every segment of society uses minerals
and mineral resources everyday. The road
we ride or drive on and the building we
live learn and work in all contain minerals.
Below is a selected list of commonly used
metallic and nonmetallic minerals, ore
minerals, mineral byproducts, aggregates,
and rock types that are used to make
products we use in our daily life.
 Natural aggregates include sand, gravel
and crshed stone. Aggregates are
composed of rocks fragments that may be
used in their natural staete or after
mechanical processing, such as crushing,
washing, or sizing.
 Aluminum is the most abundant metallic
element in the earth’s crust. Bauxite ore is
the main source of aluminum. Aluminum is
used in automobiles and airplanes (36%),
bottling and canning industries(25%),
building and electrical(14%) and in other
application (25%).
Basalt is an extrusive igneous rock. Crushed
basalt is used for railroad ballast,
aggregate in highway construction, and is
a major component of asphalt.
 Barium is an element. Derived primarily
from the mineral barite, and used as a
heavy additive in oil-well-drilling mud,
paints, rubber, plastic and paper;
production of barium chemicals; and glass
manufacturing.
 There are many different clay minerals that
are used for industrial application. Clays
are used in the manufacturing. Of paper,
rubber, ball clay, dinnerware and pottery,
floor and wall tile , sanitary wear, fire clay,
firebricks, foundry sands, drilling mud, iron-
ore pelletizing, absorbent and filtering
materials, construction materials, and
cosmetics.
 Cement used for building materials,
stucco, and mortar. cement is a mixture of
powdered lime, clay, and other minerals
that crystallize to from a hard solid when
water is added or a binding material in
concrete. An excellent overview of
cement, its chemistry, and properties can
be found in Maclaren and white(2003).

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