Luster - Metallic

Hardness - Greater than 5.5

Streak=Black/Gray

No Apparent Cleavage

Magnetite
Fe3O4

Black Streak

No Cleavage

Iron black to silvery gray. Strongly magnetic. H=6.0

Your Mineral is Magnetite!

 

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