Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Garnet Group of Minerals

What's the difference between a rock and a mineral? And what properties are used to identify minerals? The first installment of a five-part series on earth materials and processes prompts young scientists to identify a set of...

After explaining the difference between cleavage and fracture, this resource discusses various types of cleavage and their importance in identifying minerals.

This resource provides information about the color of minerals.

This resource provides a description of the mineral quartz, including physical characteristics and color images.

This is a detailed reference list of minerals and mineral classes.

This resource provides information on Moonstone, or Oligoclase.

This source provides general information on topaz. Some of the facts include classification, and physical charateristics.

This resource provides information on Mercury.

This is a resource for students to use in their study of minerals. It begins with a general description that includes the list of essential characteristics of a "mineral." Minerals are then grouped alphabetically. Selecting a name...

In this amazing interactive tutorial, you'll learn about minerals - the building blocks or rocks and the Earth. We'll talk about what makes something a mineral, and how differences in these minerals let us organize them into different...