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
Indite	black, iron	Metallic	black	5
Magnetite #	black, iron	Metallic	black	5.5-6
Naumannite #	black, iron	Metallic	black	2.5
Silicon	black, iron	Metallic	black	7
Crednerite #	black, iron	Metallic	black, brownish	4-5
Ramsdellite #	black, iron	Metallic	black, brownish	3
Baumstarkite !	black, iron	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5
Langbanite #	black, iron	Metallic	black, grayish	6.5
Petzite #	black, iron	Metallic	black, grayish	2.5
Acanthite #	black, iron	Metallic	black, shining	2-2.5
Villamaninite #	black, iron	Metallic	black, sooty	4.5
Iron !	black, iron	Metallic	gray	4-5
Kamacite ?	black, iron	Metallic	gray	4
Matildite #	black, iron	Metallic	gray, light	2.5
Cuproiridsite	black, iron	Metallic	ingen	5-6
Cuprorhodsite	black, iron	Metallic		5-5.5
Hedleyite #	black, iron	Metallic		2
Irarsite	black, iron	Metallic		6.5
Schirmerite #	black, iron	Metallic		2
Wilhelmramsayite !	black, iron	Metallic		2.5
Graphite #	black, iron	Sub Metallic	black	1.5-2
Kamiokite	black, iron	Sub Metallic	black	4.5
Ilmenite #	black, iron	Sub Metallic	black, brownish	5-5.5
Ilvaite #	black, iron	Sub Metallic	black, brownish	5.5-6
Psilomelane ?	black, iron	Sub Metallic	black, brownish	5-6
Jacobsite #	black, iron	Sub Metallic	black, reddish	5.5-6
Plattnerite #	black, iron	Sub Metallic	brown, chestnut	5.5
Ilmenorutile #	black, iron	Sub Metallic	brown, reddish	6-6.5
Wolframite *	black, iron	Sub Metallic	brown, reddish	4.5
Fluorannite !	black, iron	Sub Metallic	gray	3
Putzite !	black, iron	Vitreous - Metallic	black	3-3.5
Triphylite #	blackish	Greasy (Oily)	white, grayish	4-5
Lithiophilite #	blackish	Vitreous - Resinous	white, gray	4-5
Natroniobite	blackish		gray	5.5-6
Fencooperite !	black, jet	Vitreous - Adamantine	black, grayish	4.5-5
Ferrosilite #	black, nearly	Vitreous (Glassy)	gray, pale brownish	5-6
Quenselite #	black, pitch	Earthy (Dull)	gray, dark brownish	2.5
Derbylite #	black, pitch	Resinous - Metallic	black, brownish	5
Schorlomite #	black, pitch	Vitreous - Metallic	brown, dark	7-7.5
Hypercinnabar	black, purple	Adamantine	black, reddish	3
Priderite #	black, reddish	Adamantine	gray	7
Stalderite	black, reddish	Metallic	red, brownish	3.5-4
Welinite-VIII	black, reddish	Resinous	brown, pale reddish	4
Welinite-III	black, reddish	Resinous		4
Welshite	black, reddish	Subadamantine	brown, light	6
Ericssonite	black, reddish	Sub Metallic	brown	4.5
Kentrolite #	black, reddish	Sub Metallic	brown, dark	5
Tokyoite !	black, reddish	Sub Metallic	brownish-red, dark	4-4.5
Ernienickelite	black, reddish	Sub Metallic	brown, yellowish	2
Kozulite	black, reddish	Vitreous (Glassy)	brown, light purple	5
Piemontite !	black, reddish	Vitreous (Glassy)	red	6-7
Orthoericssonite	black, reddish		brown	4.5
Hendricksite	black, reddish		brown, red	2.5-3
Chengdeite	black, steel	Metallic	black	5
Gaotaiite	black, steel	Metallic	black	3
Mayingite	black, steel	Metallic	black	4
Samsonite #	black, steel	Sub Metallic	red, dark	2.5
Enargite #	black, violet	Metallic	black	3
Ianthinite #	black, violet	Sub Metallic	brown, violet	2.5-3
Hauchecornite #	dark	Metallic	black, grayish	5

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