Identify

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Think it fell from space? Meteorite or not →
Photograph it
Question 1
What it might be
Or look up any mineral, rock or gem by name

The 129 candidates above are the ones identifiable by field tests — the rest of the six thousand described mineral species need X-ray diffraction, not a hand lens, so putting them in a scratch-test key would be dishonest. But any of them can be looked up here, from the encyclopaedia and the lithology registry, whenever there is a connection.

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