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
Benleonardite	black	Metallic		3.5
Bukovite	black	Metallic		2
Calvertite !	black	Metallic		4-5
Carmichaelite !	black	Metallic		6
Cervelleite	black	Metallic		1.5
Chvilevaite	black	Metallic		3.5-4
Cuprorhodsite	black	Metallic		5-5.5
Edgarite !	black	Metallic		2-2.5
Eskimoite	black	Metallic		4
Gortdrumite	black	Metallic		3.5-4
Hawthorneite	black	Metallic		6-6.5
Hedleyite #	black	Metallic		2
Kashinite	black	Metallic		7.5
Kolymite	black	Metallic		4
Larosite	black	Metallic		3-3.5
Maldonite #	black	Metallic		1.5-2
Mongshanite *	black	Metallic		5-6
Murunskite	black	Metallic		3.5
Nowackiite	black	Metallic		3.5-4
Pellouxite !	black	Metallic		-
Rasvumite	black	Metallic		4-5
Rhenium *	black	Metallic		-
Routhierite	black	Metallic		3.5
Rouxelite !	black	Metallic		-
Spionkopite	black	Metallic		2.5-3
Stavelotite-(La) !	black	Metallic		-
Thalcusite	black	Metallic		2.5-3
Treasurite	black	Metallic		-
Ulvospinel #	black	Metallic		5.5-6
Vaesite #	black	Metallic		4.5-5.5
Wallisite	black	Metallic		-
Watkinsonite	black	Metallic		3.5
Yarrowite	black	Metallic		3.5
Zenzenite	black	Metallic		5.7
Heterogenite-3R #	black	Metallic - Dull	black, brown	4-5
Bokite	black	Metallic - Dull	black, brownish	3
Rancieite #	black	Metallic - Dull	brown, dark	2.5-3
Todorokite #	black	Metallic - Dull	brown, dark	1.5
Lithiophorite #	black	Metallic - Dull	gray, blackish	2.5-3
Crichtonite #	black	Metallic - Dull	gray, dark	5-6
Petrovskaite	black	Metallic - Dull	gray, dark	2-2.5
Carlinite	black	Metallic - Dull		1
Tomichite	black	Resinous	black	6
Moluranite	black	Resinous	brown	3-4
Neotocite #	black	Resinous	brown	3-4
Perrierite-(Ce)	black	Resinous	brown	5.5
Povondraite !	black	Resinous	brown	7
Rambergite !	black	Resinous	brown	4
Ishikawaite #	black	Resinous	brown, dark	5-6
Zirconolite-2M	black	Resinous	brown, dark	5.5
Rilandite #	black	Resinous	brown, grayish	2-3
Melanocerite-(Ce) #	black	Resinous	brown, light	5-6
Polyakovite-(Ce) !	black	Resinous	brown, light	5.5-6
Thorutite #	black	Resinous	brown, light	4.5-5.5
Yttropyrochlore-(Y)	black	Resinous	brown, light	4.5-5.5
Britholite-(Y)	black	Resinous	brown, pale	5
Argentotennantite	black	Resinous	brown, red	3.5
Yttrocrasite-(Y) #	black	Resinous	brown, reddish	5.5-6
Zirconolite-3T	black	Resinous	brown, reddish	5.5
Tantalaeschynite-(Y)	black	Resinous	brown, yellowish	5.5-6
Zirkelite	black	Resinous	gray, brownish	5.5
Monsmedite ?	black	Resinous	green, dark	2
Vanadiumdravite !	black	Resinous	green, yellowish brownish	7.5
Uranpyrochlore	black	Resinous	yellow, brownish	5
Bannisterite #	black	Resinous		4
Nioboaeschynite-(Ce)	black	Resinous		5.3-5.6
Triplite #	black	Resinous - Greasy	gray, yellowish	5
Sphalerite #	black	Resinous - Greasy	white, brownish	3.5-4
Averievite !	black	Resinous - Metallic	black	4
Derbylite #	black	Resinous - Metallic	black, brownish	5
Rudashevskyite !	black	Resinous - Metallic	black, brownish	4
Gananite	black	Resinous - Metallic	gray, dark	3.5
Ludwigite #	black	Silky	black, greenish	5.5
Erlianite	black	Silky	brown	3.5
Voltaite #	black	Silky	green, grayish	3-3.5
Capgaronnite	black	Subadamantine	black, brownish	-
Kazakhstanite	black	Subadamantine	black, brownish	2.5
Coffinite #	black	Subadamantine	black, grayish	5-6
Santafeite #	black	Subadamantine	brown	-
Joesmithite	black	Subadamantine	brown, light	5.5
Vasilyevite !	black	Subadamantine	brown, red	3
Aenigmatite #	black	Subadamantine	brown, reddish	5-6
Olmsteadite	black	Subadamantine	green, olive	4
Ardennite-(As) #	black	Subadamantine	yellow, pale brownish	6-7
Finnemanite #	black	Subadamantine		2.5
Hogtuvaite	black	Subadamantine		5.5
Antimonpearceite	black	Sub Metallic	black	3
Cechite	black	Sub Metallic	black	4.5-5
Chlorbartonite !	black	Sub Metallic	black	4
Cleusonite !	black	Sub Metallic	black	6-7
Graphite #	black	Sub Metallic	black	1.5-2
Hemloite	black	Sub Metallic	black	6.5
Hulsite #	black	Sub Metallic	black	3
Montroseite #	black	Sub Metallic	black	5.5-6.5
Murdochite #	black	Sub Metallic	black	4
Neltnerite	black	Sub Metallic	black	6
Paramontroseite #	black	Sub Metallic	black	-
Tivanite	black	Sub Metallic	black	5.5
Ecandrewsite	black	Sub Metallic	black, brown	5-5.5
Romanechite #	black	Sub Metallic	black, brown	5-6

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