Is it a mineral?

 This week we've been learning about minerals and how to identify them. I guess I'm a little bit naïve and never had given much thought to what minerals make up our rocks.

I'm pretty much home-bound right now so I can't get out and do a lot of looking around, plus we've been getting quite a bit of snow in my area of Wyoming lately.

I found out a lady in my ward is a Geologist, and so I decided to call her and ask her what the most common mineral in our immediate area is, and her response was Quartz. We then talked about all sorts of things related to geology for several minutes.

Since I can't get out I am going to post a picture of some quartz pieces that were found at Split Rock Mountain which is about and hour and a half from here.

Some of the ways to identify Quartz is by it's glass like luster. It's also very hard and typically rates at around a 7 on the Mohs scale and is typically like a hexagonal shape, especially that which comes from Split Rock Mountain.





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