Video Demos
The Bottom Line on Video Resources - Here on Top!
Bottom Line: Short instructional videos may be useful to students as a pre-lab assignment, as an in-lab guide to tests and procedures, as an out-of-lab review, etc. YouTube serves to all devices.
Errors/Suggestions: Contact Scott Brande (see footer).
Uncertainty or Failure of Test Results
Importance of Test Procedure
Identifying a mineral by name requires making observations to determine a sample's physical and chemical properties.
Physical samples may be tested with relatively inexpensive and common materials, such as a porcelain tile, a piece of glass, a magnet, a flashlight, etc.
Test results are subject in part to correctly conducting a test procedure. For example, if an insufficient amount of vertical force is used to test a sample for its relative hardness on a glass plate, no scratch may develop and the test result will be negative, even if the mineral is in fact harder than a glass plate.
These instructional videos include narration that focuses on procedural details necessary for preventing a failure of observation.
Video Resources You Can Use Elsewhere
These video resources on mineral identification are available on Scott Brande's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/ScottBrande (or search "youtube scott brande")
You may freely copy and paste the URL for any video for your use elsewhere (e.g., a document, web page, etc.).
As a courtesy, if you use or distribute any video URL, I would appreciate a short note. Easy click to contact: mailto:soskarb@gmail.com
More geovids at: http://www.youtube.com/c/ScottBrande
Mineral ID Videos - Background and Demos
M01-Mineral Identification Introduction
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/E1hhFvuqtXI
M02-Luster
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/MuJN-H52mGM
M03-Mohs Hardness-Background
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/MorDV1LGTqQ
M04-Demo Mohs Hardness
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/1Eizqc2NRz4
M05-Testing Fingernail Hardness
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/YlLYTVuUAo8
M06-Color of Minerals
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/muqpv_IQfk0
M07-Demo Fracture and Cleavage
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/eeT068wxsVQ
M08-Demo Magnetism
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/U85eJURWdUA
M09-Demo Acid Test
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/l4NfC6KZyVs
M10-Using Student vs Museum Samples
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/n9hNaFg7i6E
M11-ID Strategies I
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/YxpnvDAkczM
M12-Mineral ID WrapUp
Copy URL: https://youtu.be/bi5JQqYRREI