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Mineral properties
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/properties/Minerals can be identified using a number of properties. These include physical and chemical properties such as hardness, density, cleavage and colour, crystallography, electrical conductivity, magnetism, radioactivity and fluorescence.
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Make your own pocket volcano
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/pocket-volcano/Watch this video to learn what happens inside a volcano just before it erupts and make your own pocket volcano in the classroom or at home!
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Learn how to classify fossils
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/fossil-classification/Learn the difference between impression, mineralised and trace fossils and begin to classify your specimens.
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Learn how to classify rocks
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/rock-classification/Can you tell the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Use this series of posters to learn how to classify rocks and tell the difference between them!
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Glitter restored – The Holtermann 'Nugget'
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/glitter-restored-the-holtermann-nugget/Did you know we have a newly-restored replica of the largest single mass of gold ever found?
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Cutting gemstones
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/cutting-gemstones/Faceted gemstones reveal the inherent qualities of a mineral, such as colour (or lack of it), clarity, fire and brilliance, which might otherwise remain hidden.
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Opal
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/gemstones/opal/Facts about Opal.
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Crystallography
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/what-are-minerals/crystallography/Minerals can be identified by the shape of their crystals: called crystallography. External crystallography measures the outside properties of crystals such as length of crystal surfaces and the angles between these surfaces.
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Azurite on Cerussite
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/azurite-on-cerussite/This beautiful specimen contains the largest Broken Hill azurite crystal in our collection.
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Molybdenite on quartz
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/mineral-factsheets/molybdenite-on-quartz/With its large, curved, silvery, flexible and metallic crystal flakes scattered over quartz crystals in an aesthetic arrangement, this is the best molybdenite (molybdenum sulphide) specimen of its type in the world.
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