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What are mineral properties?
Question Date: 2015-11-15
Answer 1:

Properties for minerals are the characteristics of each mineral through which we can identified them. There are physical and chemical characteristics for each mineral. For example, hardness, streak, color, cleavage, luster, florescence, etc. The following link is a good place where you can learn more:

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