Rockhound Scavenger Hunt
Is your collection complete?
As a wise rockhound, you know that the same mineral can be found naturally in a variety of colors or even different patterns.
Your mission is to find the following rocks for your collection.
Agate
One that is banded
Thunder egg
One with dentrites
Calcite
Clear
Green
White
Yellow
Fluorite
Green stripes
Purple
Jasper
Mostly Yellow
Mostly Red
Obsidian
Soild black
Snowflake
Gold Sheen
Rainbow
Mahogany
Pyrite
Cube
Dollar
Flower
Tiger's Eye
Yellow
Red
Blue
Quartz
Clear Crystal
Rose Quartz
Rutilated quartz
Smokey quartz
Petrified Wood
Local Specimen
Arizona
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Advanced Rockhound Scavenger Hunt
Identify the following 22 minerals by the clue given.
Then find one in the color they are listed under!
example Bright crystal with no true cleavage - RUBY!
Color Red:
A very dark red with cleavage faces, translucent through edges. 6.5 - 7.5 Moh's scale
A manganese carbonate mineral with crystal twinning. In its (rare) pure form, it is typically a rose-red color, otherwise its commonly found in shades of pink with streaks of white.
Color Orange:
A lead molybdate mineral in thin tabular crystals. 2.5-3 on Moh's scale.
Sublimation product in volcanic fumaroles & low temperature hydrothermal veins - don't lick this rock!
A soft waxy stone occuring in many shades, however, you need to find an orange one.
Color Yellow:
This stone smells worse than it looks
An arsenate mineral which forms as a secondary mineral in lead deposits, usually by the oxidation of galena and arsenopyrite.
Color Green:
Spinach green, mottled, some translucent spots found in California.
Flat Cleavage, may contain white veins. Will scratch fluorite.
Small crystals of magnesium iron silicate that has been found in meteorites, on the Moon & Mars
Color Blue:
Royal blue with white or black markings
Chalky powerder blue
Intense blue with pyrite flecks
Color Purple:
Found only in Russia with pearly, swirling luster it is a 5-6 on the Moh's scale
Isometric mineral with a cubic habit up to 20 cm across is used instead of glass in some high performance telescopes.
Color Clear:
A lake county gem.
Perfect 3 directional cubes that disolves in water.
Trigonal crystal system, Moh's harness 3, conchoidal & fluoresces
Color Brown:
silky stripes of a golden dark brown
A local fossil
Color Black:
Translucent edges and glass like fractures
Trigonal dark crystal, translucent under strong light.
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