Can a mineral have a streak that is a different from its color?

Can a mineral have a streak that is a different from its color?

Streak is the color of a mineral’s powder. Streak is a more reliable property than color because streak does not vary. Minerals that are the same color may have a different colored streak. To check streak, scrape the mineral across an unglazed porcelain plate (Figure below).

What mineral can be different colors?

Fluorite for instance can be lots of different colours. The different colours are caused by the slight imperfections or impurities a mineral may contain. To identify many minerals you must look at more than just their colour. In the pictures below you can see that fluorite can come in many different colours.

What mineral is pink with a white streak?

dolomite
Mineral Classification Tables

Table 1. Nonmetallic Luster—Light Color
Typical Color	Hardness	Mineral Name
pink or white	3	dolomite
colorless or white	2.5–3	halite
colorless or white	2.5	muscovite

What mineral has a different streak?

Streak is useful to distinguish two minerals that have the same color, but a different streak . A fine example is distinguishing gold, which has a yellow streak, and pyrite, which has a black streak. Another example is distinguishing magnetite, which has a black streak, and hematite, which has a reddish streak.

What is streak in mineral?

streak, the colour of a mineral in its powdered form. It is usually obtained by rubbing the mineral on a hard, white surface, such as a tile of unglazed porcelain, so as to yield a line, or streak, of fine powder.

What color is a Diamonds streak?

Colorless

Diamond
Luster	Adamantine
Streak	Colorless
Diaphaneity	Transparent to subtransparent to translucent
Specific gravity	3.52±0.01

What mineral has a yellow streak?

gold
Streak is useful to distinguish two minerals that have the same color, but a different streak . A fine example is distinguishing gold, which has a yellow streak, and pyrite, which has a black streak.

What mineral is yellow?

A number of yellow minerals are rare in nature but common in rock shops and at rock and mineral shows. Among these are gummite, massicot, microlite, millerite, niccolite, proustite/pyrargyrite, and realgar/orpiment. Many other minerals may occasionally adopt yellowish colors aside from their usual colors.

What is the streak of a mineral?

Which mineral has a colorless streak?

Streak Colors of Common Minerals
Andalusite	White or colorless (hardness is about the same as the streak plate).
Talc	White to pale green.
Titanite	White.
Topaz	Colorless (harder than the streak plate).

What is mineral streak color?