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Antietam: A Photographic Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
A photographic tour of the Battle of Antietam. Presents the battle through images of the sites where parts of the battle occurred and provides information about the battle sites. Included are many maps and commentary. A site for the...
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Amythest Galleries: Bismuth

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about bismuth, bismuth ores and their crystals.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Mica Group

For Students 9th - 10th
The mineral mica is actually a group of over thirty minerals from the subgroup Silicates. This website lists each one and provides detailed information on the most common mica minerals.
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Amethyst Galleries/brucite

For Students 9th - 10th
The mineral brucite is made of magnesium hydroxide. A picture and physical characteristics are given here.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Garnet Group of Minerals

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives information of the physical and chemical characteristics of all the different kinds of minerals in the garnet group.
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Amethyst Galleries: The Mineral Quartz

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a description of the mineral quartz, including physical characteristics and color images.
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The Mineral Native Selenium

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice information on selenium form a mineralogical point of view as well as a listing of selenium containing minerals.
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Mineral Galleries/minerals Containg Zinc

For Students 9th - 10th
Long list of mineral resources that contain zinc.
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Cobalt

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed listing of links to cobalt containing minerals around the world. Within each link, it gives a detailed description on the mineral.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery:

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives is an entry portal to information on gems and gemstones, including pictures of specimens and details on their physical properties and where they can be found.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Galleriy: What Is Luster?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Mineral Galleries provides not only a definition of luster, but also a list of common terms used to describe this mineral property.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Mineral Hornblende

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning with a list of physical characteristics, this resource explains hornblende is actually a series of minerals such as Magnesio-hornblende, Ferrohornblende, and Alumino-ferro-hornblende.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: The Mineral Calcite

For Students 9th - 10th
The world's most common mineral, Calcite, has many uses and varieties. This website lists the physical characteristics of Calcite and includes color images.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: Opal

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides general information on opal, including color, hardness, uses, and pictures.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: Jade

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource has general information on jade, and provides a physical description.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: Ruby

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives general information about the gem, ruby. Also included is information about hardness, color, uses, and other physical characteristics
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Amethyst Galleries: The Mineral Diamond

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on diamonds, such as physical characteristics, and physical properties.
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Amethyst Galleries: The Mineral Hematite

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents thorough geological data on the iron containing mineral hematite, with links to other iron containing minerals.
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Amethyst Galleries: Physical Characteristics of Minerals

For Students 9th - 10th
The properties of minerals are defined in this resource, such as color, luster, cleavage, hardness, streak, and more. Included are pictures of minerals along with detailed descriptions. You can also search for minerals by name, class, or...
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Amethyst Galleries: Minerals by Name

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this resource to look up any mineral by name to see its picture along with history, class, uses, related minerals, and physical properties. Just choose from this alphabetically sorted list of minerals.
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Amethyst Galleries: The Mineral Native Antimony

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustrated and thorough resource presents geological information on antimony and minerals containing antimony.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: Amethyst Purple Variety of Quartz

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of amethyst, including its physical properties and the more noteworthy locations it is mined.
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Amethyst Galleries: Mineral Gallery: Zircon

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides general information on zircon, including hardness, color, and uses.
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Amethyst Galleries: Minerals: Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on Mercury.