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Rocks and Minerals

Is ice found in the North Pole really considered a mineral... because if it were, then wouldn't water, which is really the same substance, be a mineral too?

How are quartz crystals formed in igneous rocks?

How are rocks formed?

How is mica formed?

Can you tell from the outside of a geode what is on the inside?

What is the easiest way to find or make your own gold?

What is the easiest way to find or make your own gold? (a second answer)

How do scientists tell how old a rock is?

How do diamonds form, what are they made of, and where can they be found in Canada?

Where can an individual search for crystals within Nova Scotia?

What can scratch a diamond?

I found a rock that seems unusual for our area along the shore of Yarmouth County. The color of this rock is blackish-purple with streaks of dark red.Any suggestions as to what kind of rock this is?

Does any race of people actually eat soil as a regular dietary staple?

How are rocks formed? (a second answer)

What are the most modern terms for an adamellite and a monzonite?

How do you grow crystals?

Why is gold found in quarts reefs?

Why is gold so valuable to people?

Why is it that gold is easy to mold?

What can rocks and minerals tell us about how and where they were formed?

How are minerals formed?

Please explain, in elementary school terms, how quartz crystals are formed and how they fit into one of the three major rock types (metamorphic).

Please explain how quartz crystals are formed and how they fit into one of the three major rock types.

What category does gold belong, sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic? Are all minerals classified under the above categories?

Are you familiar with something called Green Labradorite? It's a feldspar (plagioclase, I think), apple green streaked with white, and comes from the Makkovik area of Labrador. I've been told that the green is caused by a low lead content. Can you verify that? Also, when heated over a bunsen flame, it loses its green colour and turns whitish. Explain that!

When wood becomes petrified and changes into a rock type form is it considered a metamorphic rock because of its transformation? What exactly does petrified mean?

Can you give us a simple explanation of how sedimentary and metamorphic rock forms?(grade 6)

What is the diffrence between composition and properties in rocks?

What are the properties for classifing rocks?

How are rubies made?

What is the lightest rock that floats on water?

How do you classify metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks, and ingenous rocks by their physical appearances?

Can we say that no diamond is a mineral formed in an igneous rock?

How is the half-life of a given element determined?

Why are archeological sites always buried under several feet of earth? Is the Earth continuously being covered with more dirt? Where does all that dirt come from?

What materials would we be deprived of without rocks and minerals

   

    Last Modified: 2004-12-10