I want to separate minerals for spot analysis such as quartz, and feldspars. biotite, muscovite, garnet, zircon, and other minerals that I am not familiar with their shapes under a binocular microscope, is there any atlas that can help separate mineral grains?
Guenter Grundmann
There is only one way to learn to recognize and identify the mineral species you mentioned with their physical and optical properties such as color, crystal shape, grain shape, cleavage, fracture pattern, mineral association, host rock assemblage etc., use :
https://www.mindat.org/
and learn!
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