Rocks & Minerals B/C ID/Question Marathon

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Post by rockster »

I agree with vxpvm and Solomon
Senior year and ready to Rock the Rocks and Minerals :twisted:
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It is corundum
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I agree with all.
2015 States- Invasives 10th, Fossils 12th
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Going back to the open ID question i posted on page 20... the answer was Gabbro, but I forgot to say who was right.
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So in preparation for States I was going through the many rocks and minerals our school has from when it taught Geology a million years ago. Although we must have hundreds of specimens, only a small portion are labeled (some have numbers but we can't find the key), and I myself can't identify all of them. Today I took pictures of a few of them: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/450 ... nowns.docx
Any suggestions?
(I'm assuming all of them are on the 2014 list; they should be because they came from sets of common specimens)
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Post by XJcwolfyX »

The most recent one was corundum, sorry for the delayed response!
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Post by darkdeserthighway »

can we keep this going?
2015 States- Invasives 10th, Fossils 12th
2014 States- Rocks and Minerals 3rd
2013 States- Rocks and Minerals 7th, Water Quality 9th
2012 States- Rocks and Minerals 10th
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[img]http://www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com/sites/default/files/Tremolite.jpg[/img]
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Epidote??
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Good guess but wrong
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