1. To learn how to classify everyday rocks using hand-on specimens. * A few simple tests and observations will help you place your specimens into a category (igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic). It may not be the full proper name for your specimen, but it will put it into the right family. Once you get to know the family by name you feel a little closer to it and it becomes familiar. Soon you will begin to learn the names of some of the different members of the family.
2. To learn how to tell rocks and minerals apart-identify-using hands-on specimens. *Between 2500-3000 minerals have been identified, but there are only 60 that you will come across in the field. They are identified by their various characteristics-color, luster, streak and hardness are the obvious ones. We will learn these techniques.
3. To learn mining procedures and the proper equipment to use when collecting specimens (hands-on).
4. To provide the group with opportunities for the collection of local minerals, while implementing what we have learned.
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