Thanks for watching! If you haven't already, please like and subscribe, and check out my "Exploring Earth Science" playlist for more of my videos (kzfaq.info/sun/PLnAeuYnCyxWkWFOaAY9VjRezA3PCyEq9T). Also, I've recently updated this video, and added some other new minerals content - here's a new minerals playlist - kzfaq.info/sun/PLnAeuYnCyxWkmQyNKKy44KE5fH-SCeWgz Also, I'm adding resources to science.mikesammartano.com everyday - check it out! And keep commenting with your thoughts, including ideas for new videos!!

Simple, direct, well-paced, no audio problems, no lighting problems. For beginners like me, this is definitely the most helpful identification video.

"breakage is probably the hardest property to identify" *clicks like immediately*

Is anyone here because of a identification test?

You just did in 8 minutes what my TA couldn't do in 30. Thank you!

OMG UR A LIFE SAVER!!!!! i had to do a rocks and minerals test and i got ALL OF THEM CORRECT!!! THANK U!! :3

This video is very thorough and clear. I don't know if it is just me, but do the minerals look out of focus?

As I am a geology student it is very useful for me..... Tq so much🙂🙂🙂🙂

Great video! The sheet of biotite looked more like muscovite and the lighting made the luster a little difficult to see. I still plan to use this with my students. Nice job.

Thanks man very informative

great video! Great stuff to know!!

I have been picking up rocks and bringing them home for years. I didn't know any of the things you talked about although I did noticed that come rocks broke with straight lines. Cool and informative video. Thanks.

This was really helpful. I used it with my 4th grade homeschooler and she was able to understand it more than I thought she would.

Very educational & i learn so much bout minerals . Very interesting topic , thanks for sharing us your knowledge . Looking forward for more video like this .

Nephrite = How to tell whether a Nephrite is of a Good Grade - and How and where to find a Good Buyers For it ?

Teacher: watch this video Me: *ok*

Hey Mike, just wanted to say thanks for your range of videos on rocks mate. Helped me out greatly with my year 8's.

Well done . Have you considered doing a DVD for use by gem clubs? There is a great need by the clubs to teach this, it's not that they can't teach it , it hard to maintain uniformity. Once again , well done.

really helpful..... sir i am a geology student from India, can u pls tell me how to identify whether a mineral is crystalline or amourphous?????

i love your mineral samples

Very informative. Much needed for my geology quiz tomorrow!! Thank you!!

Thank you very much. It's so easy for me to complete my geography chapters after watching your videos.

I am a twelve year old Korean girl, and I watched this video for my academy test. This was the first video I actually understood.

This is comprehensive. Thank you.

Great videos. I have been using them with my class. They have really helped with the study of rocks and minerals. Also, they have aided in the development of their note taking. Seriously enjoy. Thank you.

Always wanted to know these things,,,thank you for helping an old guy out!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge Mike, it's a great helper!

Identifying minerals? More like "This video kills"...ignorance, with all of the knowledge it contains. Thanks again so much for making and sharing all of these wonderful videos!

Really helpful, I understood everything and I'm able to identify minerals! (:

This explains so much better then my Earth Science book, very informative, thank you!

all your videos are through and explainary..well done sir!

Thank you. This was very helpful for me. I love rock hounding.

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I signed up beacuse of the name of the channel but the information provided is outstanding!!

thank you so much my teacher send me this video

i was watching this out loud so everyone got suspicious when he kept saying cleavage

Thank you very much Keep on making such informative videos

Am I the only one here because of science class?

thank you for helping us

I found in one trip to a mountain crystal rocks kind of clear and goldish (not metallic) and I am very curious in finding what type of mineral is this

This is a perfect video for my school assignment!!

Thiiis is just what Ive been looking for...Thankyou Very Much!!!!

Nice lecture. Thank you.

Who else is here bacause you actually like minerals and want to learn more about them not because of science

thx dude i needed this for my school i am so glad at least someone so good at science atleast i can answer my teacher any quistion she asks me thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and youll give me a A++ once again thxxxxxxxxxxxxx hip hip horray hip hip horray

Great help thank you

Awesome vid ty for your time and knowledge ..thanx fir sharing !!

"This piece Galena has a really interesting type of CALCITE" ! 4:26 (thumbs up) very thorough and clear explanation!

I have a geode, and the crystals inside are white. They first smelled kind of like laundry detergent, but now they smell like nothing. It might have been because I cracked it open with a hammer. It isn’t see through, and when I put a fire up to it the color changed to gray and yellow, and it smells like ash now. What do you think it is?

And non-metal has a few sub-category as well. Pearly, Vitreous, Resinous, Waxy,etc

I watch pretty much all of your vidoes and they are awesome please make more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks a lot bro its help me with my petroleum engineering study

best teacher ever

Mike question if a black fractured glassy rock cuts in to glass. Is it a mineral? Thanks for your answer to this question in advance.

You're a fantastic teacher!!

While this information is useful in identifying mineral characteristics, it does not identify specific minerals. For example, how do you identify two different minerals that are soft, fracture the same, are nonmetallic, and have no calcite? Can this be done without expensive scientific equipment? I ask this because my 6-year-old granddaughter is very interested and I would like to help her understand more about it. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

this cleared my concept as clean as whistle Thankyou sir! and keep uploading such videos :)

I have a rock where yellow color mineral distributed around it. I want to know whether it is gold. Is there any other metal or mineral that is yellow in color

hello I really enjoy watching your video

That was kinda helpful tysm🥰

Thank you, very helpful for my last minute studying.

Thank you.

This is great! Thank you so much for putting this together!

Wow you explain so good. 👍

ur videos really helped me sir ...thank you

IDENTIFYING MINERALS 0:01 Mineral Color 0:10 PROBLEM 0:26 All the same mineral. 0:39 Color is not a reliable characteristic to use for identification. 1:09 TESTING HARDNESS 1:16 TESTING LUSTER 2:13 TESTING BREAKAGE 3:14 TESTING STREAK 5:18 OTHER CHARACTERISTICS 7:11

Nice video👍

What semiconductor metals can be used?

This guy is so smart

thank you for this😊

Thanking you isn't enough ❤️

i love your channel

Can we take any glass to check the hardness

Thank you this video help me to study for my quiz

Thank you for giving us such an informative video that beginners like me can understand! I've heard the terms "fractured" and "cleavage" but as a woman and retired nurse, they simply sounded like sexy underwear and a medical problem! Lol. (Yes, I subscribed!) :)

Can anyone tell me where I could post a picture of a rock to get help identifying it? I’m not seeing it on any mineral identification web site.

It's better than my teacher

I do have some stones like the one u have in the middle of your stones ,when u put light to it reflects light. How much would it cost

Really liked it and help me alot differentiate minerals.

Thanks for video

ok what all those mean ? if an stone harder or softer than glass or metallic or not so what ? my mean i like to know rear stones is this helpful for me ? i do not care stone is how hard or soft i care how much its value

"Please don't lick your mineral samples."

This guy is better than my Science teacher

what if the hardness is 5.5 or 2.5?

Soooo Interessstingggg!!

It's going to help me on my test.

Thank you Mike 😎

if they are tumbled how can you figure out what they are?

This is so informative.

A very informative video.. thanks a lot

Who’s watching for e-school?

when you were testing the hardness you said it would be harder if it scratched and it wouldn't be harder if it didn't, but what if there was a very sharp edge on a mineral that was softer than glass and it scratched the glass? would that make it harder? Anyways hope that makes sense, anyways great video! Cheers

This helped me with my shcool work

Very informative :)

What's the yellow one in the thumbnail called

you helped me a lot thaks

Thank u sir very useful video

So interesting

It has a really special shape like a calcite 😂😂😂😂

this is helpful