Black Colored Minerals

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Color Count Summary: 541-(black) 11-(black, blue) 21-(black, bluish) 1-(black, bronze) 98-(black, brownish) 1-(black, coal) 3-(black, dark blue) 1-(black, dark brown) 3-(black, dark brownish) 1-(black, dark gray) 2-(black, dark grayish) 1-(black, dark green) 4-(black, dark greenish) 1-(black, dark reddish) 1-(black, deep brownish) 1-(black, deep lustrous) 3-(black, gray) 59-(black, grayish) 7-(black, green) 38-(black, greenish) 34-(black, iron) 3-(blackish) 1-(black, jet) 1-(black, nearly) 3-(black, pitch) 1-(black, purple) 13-(black, reddish) 4-(black, steel) 2-(black, violet) 1-(dark)

Mineral Name	Color	Luster	Streak Color	Moh's
Oosterboschite	black	Metallic	black	5
Owensite	black	Metallic	black	3.5
Patronite #	black	Metallic	black	2
Paxite	black	Metallic	black	3.5-4
Playfairite	black	Metallic	black	3.5-4
Qandilite	black	Metallic	black	7
Schlemaite !	black	Metallic	black	3
Selenopolybasite !	black	Metallic	black	3-3.5
Semseyite #	black	Metallic	black	2.5
Shuangfengite	black	Metallic	black	3
Stephanite #	black	Metallic	black	2-2.5
Stibioenargite *	black	Metallic	black	3
Tarkianite !	black	Metallic	black	5.5-6
Tetrahedrite #	black	Metallic	black	3.5-4
Trevorite #	black	Metallic	black	5
Vaughanite	black	Metallic	black	3-3.5
Verbeekite !	black	Metallic	black	5.5
Versiliaite	black	Metallic	black	5
Weissite #	black	Metallic	black	3
Daubreelite #	black	Metallic	black, brown	4.5-5
Herzenbergite #	black	Metallic	black, brown	2
Petscheckite	black	Metallic	black, brown	5
Vanoxite #	black	Metallic	black, brown	-
Abswurmbachite	black	Metallic	black, brownish	6.5
Nickeline #	black	Metallic	black, brownish	5.5
Pillaite !	black	Metallic	black, brownish	3-4
Ramsdellite #	black	Metallic	black, brownish	3
Twinnite #	black	Metallic	black, brownish	3.5
Hanawaltite	black	Metallic	black, dark reddish	4
Plumboferrite #	black	Metallic	black, dark reddish	5
Nagyagite #	black	Metallic	black, gray	1.5-2
Argyrodite #	black	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5
Canfieldite #	black	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5
Chalcocite #	black	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5-3
Cobaltite #	black	Metallic	black, grayish	5.5
Loveringite	black	Metallic	black, grayish	7.5
Luanheite	black	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5
Mcbirneyite	black	Metallic	black, grayish	-
Tiemannite #	black	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5
Erniggliite	black	Metallic	black, reddish	2-3
Freibergite #	black	Metallic	black, reddish	3.5-4
Plagionite #	black	Metallic	black, reddish gray	2.5
Platynite ?	black	Metallic	black, shining	2-3
Aurorite	black	Metallic	brown	2-3
Chalcophanite #	black	Metallic	brown	2.5
Chromite #	black	Metallic	brown	5.5
Coparsite !	black	Metallic	brown	-
Filipstadite	black	Metallic	brown	6-6.5
Takeuchiite	black	Metallic	brown	6
Tapiolite *	black	Metallic	brown	6-6.5
Tapiolite-(Fe) #	black	Metallic	brown	6
Yimengite	black	Metallic	brown	4
Donathite ?	black	Metallic	brown, black	6.5-7
Seligmannite #	black	Metallic	brown, chocolate	2.5-3
Heterogenite-2H	black	Metallic	brown, dark	3-4
Ixiolite #	black	Metallic	brown, dark	6-6.5
Magnetoplumbite #	black	Metallic	brown, dark	6
Nezilovite !	black	Metallic	brown, dark	4-5
Fingerite	black	Metallic	brown, dark red	-
Blossite	black	Metallic	brown, red	-
Howardevansite	black	Metallic	brown, red	-
Katoptrite #	black	Metallic	brown, red	5.5
Marokite	black	Metallic	brown, red	6.5
Stoiberite	black	Metallic	brown, red	-
Ziesite	black	Metallic	brown, red	-
Hibonite #	black	Metallic	brown, reddish	7.5-8
Hematite #	black	Metallic	brown,. reddish	6.5
Jankovicite	black	Metallic	brown, violet	2
Bournonite #	black	Metallic	gray	3
Buckhornite	black	Metallic	gray	2.5
Latrappite	black	Metallic	gray	5.5
Lindsleyite	black	Metallic	gray	7.5
Mathiasite	black	Metallic	gray	7.5
Covellite #	black	Metallic	gray, black	1.5-2
Saddlebackite !	black	Metallic	gray, blackish	2-2.5
Stibnite #	black	Metallic	gray, blackish	2
Orthopinakiolite	black	Metallic	gray, brown	6
Uhligite ?	black	Metallic	gray, brownish	5.5
Imiterite	black	Metallic	gray, dark	2.5-3
Laurite #	black	Metallic	gray, dark	7.5
Lyonsite	black	Metallic	gray, dark	-
Magnesiochromite #	black	Metallic	gray, dark	5.5
Mckinstryite	black	Metallic	gray, dark	1.5-2.5
Molybdenite #	black	Metallic	gray, greenish	1
Nichromite	black	Metallic	gray, greenish	6-6.5
Paderaite	black	Metallic	gray, lead	4
Tennantite #	black	Metallic	gray, reddish	3.5-4
Cochromite	black	Metallic	green	7
Eskolaite #	black	Metallic	green	8-8.5
Cuproiridsite	black	Metallic	ingen	5-6
Djurleite	black	Metallic	metallic	2.5-3
Sorbyite	black	Metallic	metallic	3.5-4
Sterryite	black	Metallic	metallic	3.5
Gabrielite !	black	Metallic	red, blackish	1.5-2
Galaxite #	black	Metallic	red, brownish	7.5
Stalderite	black	Metallic	red, brownish	3.5-4
Magnesioferrite #	black	Metallic	red, dark	6-6.5
Berzelianite #	black	Metallic	shining	2
Dyscrasite #	black	Metallic	white, silver	3.5-4
Bayankhanite ?	black	Metallic		3-3.5

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